Up the Front

Up the Front is a 1972 British comedy film. It is the third film spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! , directed by Bob Kellett, it stars Frankie Howerd as Lurk , 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 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 , he is confronted by the sensuous German spy Mata Hari . 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 and his henchmen Donner and Blitzen .
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