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Cast: William Wellman Jr., Jan Murray, Paul Winchell, Jerry Lewis, Joe Besser, Sidney Miller, Kathleen Freeman
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Slapstick Which Way to the Front? is a 1970 film starring Jerry Lewis. It would be Lewis' last released film for eleven years (Lewis' first film for Warner Brothers and his second and last one being 1983's Cracking Up), until 1981's Hardly Working. The unreleased The Day the Clown Cried was filmed in the years between. Which Way to the Front? was released in July 1970 by Warner Bros.
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own... MORE
Which Way to the Front? is a 1970 film starring Jerry Lewis. It would be Lewis' last released film for eleven years (Lewis' first film for Warner Brothers and his second and last one being 1983's Cracking Up), until 1981's Hardly Working. The unreleased The Day the Clown Cried was filmed in the years between. Which Way to the Front? was released in July 1970 by Warner Bros.
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own army. He finances their training and equipment. Once completed, they travel to the front in Italy, with Byers impersonating a Nazi general named "Smiling Albert" Kesselring.
The plan is to pull back the German lines, since the front has remained static for too long, enabling the Allies to push forward again. The mission does not go smoothly and they must overcome several obstacles, including the fiery wife of the local mayor who is the real Kesselring's lover, and the real Kesselring's involvement in an assassination attempt on Hitler. Afterwards, they face their LESS
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