
Up the Front 1972
"When only Frankie's cheek could save Britain from the Hun!"
Overview
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 b
Director: Bob Kellett
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