Ney! Ney! and thrice Ney! Frankie Howerd hits the big screen.
Up Pompeii had premiered as an episode in the BBC’s long running Comedy Playhouse series before going on to run for two series.
As was common place at the time Up,Pompeii would get the big screen treatment in 1971. Whilst the TV series produced a number of spin offs the film would go on to do the same.
Sadly they don’t make ’em like they used to.
Summary
Lurcio becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero. The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio’s master, Ludicrus Sextus 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.
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Cast
Frankie Howerd as Lurcio
Michael Hordern as Ludicrus Sextus
Barbara Murray as Ammonia
Patrick Cargill as Nero
Lance Percival as Bilius
Julie Ege as Voluptua
Bill Fraser as Prosperus Maximus
Rita Webb as Cassandra
Bernard Bresslaw as Gorgo (Nero’s Champion)
Adrienne Posta as Scrubba
Russell Hunter as Jailor
Madeline Smith as Erotica
Royce Mills as Nausius
Ian Trigger as Odius
Aubrey Woods as Villanus
Hugh Paddick as Priest
Candace Glendenning as Stone Girl
Details
Written By: Sid Colin
Produced by: Ned Sherrin
Directed by: Bob Kellett
Distributed by : Anglo-EMI
Release Date: 1971