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Director
  
Bob Kellett

Music director
  
Peter Greenwell

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Country
  
United Kingdom

Our Miss Fred movie poster

Writer
  
Hugh Leonard
,
Terence Feely

Release date
  
1972

Screenplay
  
Hugh Leonard, Terence Feely

Cast
  
Danny La Rue
(Fred Wimbush),
Alfred Marks
(General Brincker),
Lance Percival
(Smallpiece),
Lally Bowers
(Miss Flodden),
Frances de la Tour
(Miss Lockhart),
Walter Gotell
(Schmidt)

Similar movies
  
Medal for the General (1944)

Tagline
  
DANNY LA RUE has a secret weapon to win the war in his first film!

Our miss fred


Our Miss Fred is a 1972 British comedy film starring Danny La Rue and set during World War II. The film was also known by its video release titles Beyond the Call of Duty (Canada) and Operation: Fred (US). In the 1960s, La Rue was one of the highest paid entertainers in Britain, but this represents his only starring role in a feature film.

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Plot

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Shakespearean actor Fred Wimbush is called up during World War II, and is performing in drag, entertaining the troops in France, when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues his disguise in women's clothes, Fred fears he will be shot as a spy. The double entendres and bullets fly as he attempts his escape in the company of the pupils from an English girls' finishing school.

Sample gag

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'Given his experience as a (Shakespearean) actor, (Fred) ends up...working as an entertainer for the troops. And playing all the female parts. He’s not entirely happy... "Look at me, dressed like a bird," he grumbles. "They used to come from miles away to see my Titus Andronicus." ' (Alastair Wallis: "Movies About Girls")

Cast

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  • Danny La Rue - Fred Wimbush
  • Alfred Marks - General Brincker
  • Lance Percival - Squadron Leader Smallpiece
  • Lally Bowers - Miss Flodden
  • Frances de la Tour - Miss Lockhart
  • Walter Gotell - Schmidt
  • Kristin Hatfield - Hilary
  • Jenny Twigge - Judith
  • Vanessa Furse - Prunella
  • Seretta Wilson - Elvira
  • Sophie Batchelor - Emma
  • John Barrard - Patron
  • Nancy Nevinson - Patron's Wife
  • Cyril Shaps - Doctor
  • Frank Thornton - British Colonel
  • André Maranne - French Resistance Fighter
  • Barrie Gosney - Bertie
  • David Ellen - Bobby
  • Toni Palmer - Vendeuse
  • Jennifer Croxton - Jeanette
  • Anthony Sagar - R.S.M.
  • Noel Coleman - Senior RAF officer
  • Peter Greenwell - M.C.

    • Critical reception

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  • In "The Spinning image", Graeme Clark called the film, "a goodnatured comedy which, while you can see why La Rue's prospects in cinema might have been limited, also proved he was no dead loss in front of the camera either."
  • In the Radio Times, David McGillivray wrote, "Danny La Rue, Britain's most popular female impersonator during the 1970's, seems terribly constricted in his one major film, an old-fashioned wartime comedy written by distinguished playwright Hugh Leonard."
  • Psychotic Cinema wrote, "this is a fun movie with plenty of sexual innuendo jokes and a rousing rendition of the popular song Hitler Has Only Got One Ball."
  • Movies About Girls wrote of La Rue, "he actually comes across remarkably well on screen...It’s all terrifically entertaining... La Rue can’t hide the fact that he’s loving every minute of it. You wouldn’t want him to either, because each and every smirk and grin means you can’t help but enjoy yourself along with him."

    • Our Miss Fred Danny LaRue is Our Miss Fred YouTube

    References

    Our Miss Fred Wikipedia
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    Our Miss Fred IMDb Our Miss Fred themoviedb.org