Watch Up The Front (1972) Free Online

Release Date: 1972

Cast: Stanley Holloway, Madeline Smith, Nicholas Bennett, Barrie Gosney, Lance Percival, Mike Grady, Veronica Clifford, Linda Gray, Peter Greenwell, Frankie Howerd, William Mervyn, Zsa Zsa Gábor ...MORE

Cast: Stanley Holloway, Madeline Smith, Nicholas Bennett, Barrie Gosney, Lance Percival, Mike Grady, Veronica Clifford, Linda Gray, Peter Greenwell, Frankie Howerd, William Mervyn, Zsa Zsa Gábor, Jonathan Cecil, Bill Fraser, Dora Bryan, Bob Hoskins ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Farce, Slapstick

Up the Front is a 1972 British comedy film. It is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! (the previous film being Up the Chastity Belt set in the Middle Ages which followed on from the "Up Pompeii" film), directed by Bob Kellett, it stars Frankie Howerd as Lurk (a descendant of the slave Lurcio in Up Pompeii), a coward who is hypnotised into bravery. Set during World War I, Lurk is transported from his role as a lowly servant in the household of Lord and Lady Twithampton (William Mervyn & Linda Gray) to the Western Front. Lurk is inspired to bravery, and upon receiving the... MORE

Up the Front is a 1972 British comedy film. It is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! (the previous film being Up the Chastity Belt set in the Middle Ages which followed on from the "Up Pompeii" film), directed by Bob Kellett, it stars Frankie Howerd as Lurk (a descendant of the slave Lurcio in Up Pompeii), a coward who is hypnotised into bravery. Set during World War I, Lurk is transported from his role as a lowly servant in the household of Lord and Lady Twithampton (William Mervyn & Linda Gray) to the Western Front. Lurk is inspired to bravery, and upon receiving the German master plan for the entire war, which has through an unlikely series of events been tattooed onto his posterior, is pursued across France by German intelligence. After breaking into the British military headquarters to deliver the plans into the hands of General Burke (Robert Coote), he is confronted by the sensuous German spy Mata Hari (Zsa Zsa Gabor). After foiling Mata Hari's scheme to relieve him of the plan, a hilarious scene develops in which he is pursued by the nefarious Von Gutz (Lance Percival) and his henchmen Donner and Blitzen (Gertan Klauber and Stanley Labor). Accompanied by LESS