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Up the Front

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.

Date: 07/14/1972

Rating: 4.2

Cast: Frankie Howerd, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Coote, Bill Fraser, Lance Percival, Dora Bryan, Peter Bull, Jonathan Cecil, Percy Herbert, William Mervyn, Madeline Smith, Stanley Holloway, Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Battley, Nicholas Bennett, Michael Brennan, Veronica Clifford, Mischa De La Motte, Vernon Dobtcheff, Kenneth Fortescue, Robert Gillespie, Peter Greenwell, Derek Griffiths, Harvey Hall, Gertan Klauber, Stanley Lebor, Ingo Mogendorf, Toni Palmer, Patricia Quinn, Linda Gray, Mike Grady, Barrie Gosney, Bob Hoskins, Andy Bradford, Andrew McCulloch, Alan Rebbeck, Bozena, Ian Talbot, Parnell McGarry, Leena Skoog, Delia Sainsbury, Madhav Sharma, Lesley Anderson, Judy Gridley, Maggie Vincent, Wendy Lukins, Nicola Rowley, Pip Miller, Liz Gold, Jennifer Guy, Victor Harrington, Sidney Kean, Lorna Kilner, Margaret Stuart, John Tatham, Joe Wadham, Ron Watkins

Frankie Howerd