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Up the Front

4.2 89 mins Comedy   1972
Anglo-EMI  
Director(s): Bob Kellett

Release Date: 14 Fri, Jul 1972

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.

Casts of Up the Front

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

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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