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Release date:Jul 14, 1972
Runtime:1h 29m

Up the Front

★ 5.5

"In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment."

Comedy
English
Frankie Howerd ... as Private Lurk
Hermione Baddeley ... as Madame Monique
Robert Coote ... as General Burke
Bill Fraser ... as Sergeant Major Groping
Lance Percival ... as Colonel von Gutz
Dora Bryan ... as Auntie Cora Crumpington
Peter Bull ... as General von Kobler
Jonathan Cecil ... as Captain Nigel Phipps-Fortescue
Percy Herbert ... as Corporal Lovechild
William Mervyn ... as Lord Twithampton
Madeline Smith ... as Fanny
Stanley Holloway ... as The Great Vincento
Zsa Zsa Gabor ... as Mata Hari
David Battley ... as Midgeley
Nicholas Bennett ... as Mallett
Michael Brennan ... as Military Policeman
Veronica Clifford ... as Velma
Mischa De La Motte ... as Diplomat
Vernon Dobtcheff ... as Muller
Kenneth Fortescue ... as General Burke's Aide-de-Camp
Robert Gillespie ... as French Officer
Peter Greenwell ... as Pianist / Accordianiste / Leader of the Orchestra
Derek Griffiths ... as El Puncturo
Harvey Hall ... as Military Policeman
Gertan Klauber ... as Donner
Stanley Lebor ... as Blitzen
Ingo Mogendorf ... as Captain Hamburger
Toni Palmer ... as 1st Buttercup Girl
Patricia Quinn ... as Magda
Linda Gray ... as Lady Twithampton
Mike Grady ... as Newsboy
Barrie Gosney ... as Stage Manager
Bob Hoskins ... as Recruiting Sergeant
Andy Bradford ... as Dispatch Rider
Andrew McCulloch ... as Soldier
Alan Rebbeck ... as Winking Soldier
Bozena ... as Frou Frou
Ian Talbot ... as Soldier at Monique's
Parnell McGarry ... as Fat Nurse
Leena Skoog ... as Nurse
Delia Sainsbury ... as 2nd Buttercup Girl
Madhav Sharma ... as Indian Officer
Lesley Anderson ... as Buttercup Girl
Judy Gridley ... as Buttercup Girl
Maggie Vincent ... as Buttercup Girl
Wendy Lukins ... as Buttercup Girl
Nicola Rowley ... as French Girl
Pip Miller ... as Waiter
Liz Gold ... as Mademoiselle from Armentieres (uncredited)
Jennifer Guy ... as Whore (uncredited)
Victor Harrington ... as British Officer (uncredited)
Sidney Kean ... as Singing Soldier (uncredited)
Lorna Kilner ... as Lady Dancing at Ball (uncredited)
Margaret Stuart ... as Prostitute (uncredited)
John Tatham ... as British Officer (uncredited)
Joe Wadham ... as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Ron Watkins ... as British Solider (uncredited)
Sid Colin... (Screenplay)
Eddie Braben... (Screenplay)
Peter Greenwell... (Original Music Composer)
Tony Spratling... (Director of Photography)
Al Gell... (Editor)
Thelma Graves... (Casting)
Seamus Flannery... (Production Design)
Terry Glinwood... (Producer)
Ned Sherrin... (Producer)
Beryl Vertue... (Executive Producer)
PG (United Kingdom)

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