Up Pompeii (film)

Up Pompeii is a 1971 British sex comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern. The film was shot at Elstree Film Studios, Borehamwood, England and is based on characters that first appeared in the British television sitcom Up Pompeii! (1969–1975).

Plot

Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern), who mistakenly reads the contents of the scroll to the Senate. Farcical attempts are made to retrieve the scroll before Pompeii is eventually consumed by the erupting Vesuvius.

Cast

Frankie Howerd as Lurcio

Michael Hordern as Ludicrus Sextus

Barbara Murray as Ammonia

Patrick Cargill as Nero

Lance Percival as Bilius

Bill Fraser as Prosperus Maximus

Julie Ege as Voluptua

Adrienne Posta as Scrubba

Bernard Bresslaw as Gorgo (Nero's Champion)

Madeline Smith as Erotica

Roy Hudd as Nero's M.C.

Hugh Paddick as Priest

Royce Mills as Nausius

Rita Webb as Cassandra

Lally Bowers as Procuria

Aubrey Woods as Villanus

Billy Walker as Prodigious

Russell Hunter as Jailor

Laraine Humphrys as Flavia

Kenneth Cranham as 1st Christian

George Woodbridge as Fat Bather

Derek Griffiths as Steam Slave

Robert Tayman as Noxius

Carol Hawkins as Nero's Girl

Candace Glendenning as Stone Girl

Reception

The film was the 10th most popular movie at the British box office in 1971.

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