Up the Front | |
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Directed by | Bob Kellett |
Written by | Sid Colin Eddie Braben |
Produced by | Terry Glinwood Ned Sherrin Beryl Vertue |
Starring | Frankie Howerd Bill Fraser Hermione Baddeley |
Cinematography | Tony Spratling |
Edited by | Al Gell |
Music by | Peter Greenwell |
Distributed by | Anglo-EMI |
Release date | July 1972 UK |
Running time | 89 min |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £200,000[1] |
Up the Front is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, and Hermione Baddeley. Set during the First World War, it is the third film spin-off from the television series Up Pompeii! (the previous films being Up Pompeii (1971), set, like the TV series, in the Roman era; and Up the Chastity Belt (1971), set in the Middle Ages). The plot concerns Lurk (a descendant of the slave Lurcio in Up Pompeii), a coward who is hypnotised into bravery.