Up the Front
Up the Front
Release: 1972-07-14
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 4.2
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Anglo-EMI
Cast
Frankie Howerd
as Private Lurk
Michael Brennan
as Military Policeman
Robert Gillespie
as French Officer
Jennifer Guy
as Whore (uncredited)
Lance Percival
as Colonel von Gutz
Mike Grady
as Newsboy
Parnell McGarry
as Fat Nurse
Stanley Lebor
as Blitzen
Harvey Hall
as Military Policeman
Peter Bull
as General von Kobler
William Mervyn
as Lord Twithampton
Patricia Quinn
as Magda
Pip Miller
as Waiter
Hermione Baddeley
as Madame Monique
Zsa Zsa Gabor
as Mata Hari
David Battley
as Midgeley
Kenneth Fortescue
as General Burke's Aide-de-Camp
Andrew McCulloch
as Soldier
Percy Herbert
as Corporal Lovechild
Madeline Smith
as Fanny
Stanley Holloway
as The Great Vincento
Barrie Gosney
as Stage Manager
Leena Skoog
as Nurse
Robert Coote
as General Burke
Bill Fraser
as Sergeant Major Groping
Veronica Clifford
as Velma
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Muller
Derek Griffiths
as El Puncturo
Andy Bradford
as Dispatch Rider
Dora Bryan
as Auntie Cora Crumpington
Madhav Sharma
as Indian Officer
Jonathan Cecil
as Captain Nigel Phipps-Fortescue
Bob Hoskins
as Recruiting Sergeant
Toni Palmer
as 1st Buttercup Girl
