Up the Front

Up the Front (1972)

Comedy

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.

Director: Bob Kellett
Writers: Sid Colin, Eddie Braben.

Casts

	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)

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