Up the Front (1972)
"When only Frankie's cheek could save Britain from the Hun!"
Title: Up the Front
Original Title: Up the Front
Release Date: 1972-07-14
Status: Released
Rating: 4.2/10 (from 16 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Anglo-EMI
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
Hermione Baddeley
Madame Monique
Robert Coote
General Burke
Bill Fraser
Sergeant Major Groping
Lance Percival
Colonel von Gutz
Dora Bryan
Auntie Cora Crumpington
Peter Bull
General von Kobler
Jonathan Cecil
Captain Nigel Phipps-Fortescue
Percy Herbert
Corporal Lovechild
William Mervyn
Lord Twithampton
