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Up the Front

Up the Front

IMDB:

4.2
Up the Front

Released

7/14/1972

Duration

1h 29m

Genre

Comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Cast

Frankie Howerd, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Coote

Overview

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.

Cast

Frankie Howerd

Private Lurk

Frankie Howerd

Hermione Baddeley

Madame Monique

Hermione Baddeley

Robert Coote

General Burke

Robert Coote

Bill Fraser

Sergeant Major Groping

Bill Fraser

Lance Percival

Colonel von Gutz

Lance Percival

Dora Bryan

Auntie Cora Crumpington

Dora Bryan

Peter Bull

General von Kobler

Peter Bull

Jonathan Cecil

Captain Nigel Phipps-Fortescue

Jonathan Cecil

Percy Herbert

Corporal Lovechild

Percy Herbert

William Mervyn

Lord Twithampton

William Mervyn

Madeline Smith

Fanny

Madeline Smith

Stanley Holloway

The Great Vincento

Stanley Holloway

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