Frankie Howerd Double Bill - 2-DVD Set ( Up Pompeii / Up the Chastity Belt ) ( Naughty Knights )

Frankie Howerd Double Bill - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Up Pompeii / Up the Chastity Belt
Alternate Title: Naughty Knights
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
176 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bob Kellett

Written By:
Sid Colin
Talbot Rothwell
Ray Galton

Actors:
Frankie Howerd ..... Lurcio
Michael Hordern ..... Ludicrus Sextus
Barbara Murray ..... Ammonia
Patrick Cargill ..... Nero
Lance Percival ..... Bilius
Julie Ege ..... Voluptua
Bill Fraser ..... Prosperus Maximus
Rita Webb ..... Cassandra
Bernard Bresslaw ..... Nero's Champion / Gorgo
Adrienne Posta ..... Scrubba
Madeline Smith ..... Erotica
Royce Mills ..... Nausius
Ian Trigger ..... Odius
Aubrey Woods ..... Villanus
Hugh Paddick ..... Priest
Frankie Howerd ..... Lurkalot /
Richard the Lionheart ..... Sir Coward de Custard
Graham Crowden ..... Sir Braggart de Bombast
Bill Fraser ..... Nick the Pick
Roy Hudd ..... Robin Hood
Hugh Paddick ..... Lady Ashfodel
Anna Quayle ..... Scheherazade
Eartha Kitt ..... Knotweed
Royce Mills ..... Lobelia
Anne Aston ..... Reporter
Lance Percival ..... Archbishop of all England
Godfrey Winn ..... The Mistress of the Bed Chamber / Lady-in-Waiting
Nora Swinburne ..... Troubador
David Kernan ..... The Voice
Lally Bowers ..... Yokel
David Battley

Synopsis:

Up Pompeii (1971) A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.

Up The Chastity Belt (1971) A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...

Up Pompeii (1971)
Actor Frankie Howerd reprises his role from the British TV series Up Pompeii, in the tradition of the hugely popular Carry On series. The rest of the cast comes from these two series as well. There is a plot to kill the Emperor Nero (Patrick Cargill), and his loyal slave Lurcio (Howard) unwittingly comes into possession of a scroll which lists the names of the plotters. While he remains in the dark about it, both Nero's men and the original assassins pursue Lurcio, with many zany antics, through the streets (and orgies) of ancient Rome. Much of the humor comes in asides directed to the audience.

Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
The British farce Naughty Knights was originally shipped out as Up the Chastity Belt. Raucuous comedian Frankie Howerd, who laid waste to Roman history in the zany TV series Up Pompeii, is the star. The film's medieval adventures, involving a noble knight and his stupid serf, are punctuated by ample displays of female breasts, abdomens and thighs. As in Howerd's earlier projects, the supporting cast plays straight while the star makes snide, anachronistic comments directly at audience. This soft-core nonsense is perhaps best appreciated by fans of Frankie Howard; his suprisingly stellar supporting cast includes Bill Fraser, Anna Quayle and Eartha Kitt.

Up Pompeii (1971)
Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings - but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Vesuvius decides to erupt.

Up the Chastity Belt (1971)
The Queen of England gives birth to twins. In order to protect the blood line one is kept and the other hidden in a pig style and is raised to think it's mother is the pig. Lurkalot is the one raised by pigs who doesn't know his past. He makes a good living as a servant, selling chastity belts on the side. When his master's castle is lost to Sir Braggart de Bombast, Lurkalot must fight to protect his daughter, eventually travelling to the missions to bring back his master. On the mission he uncovers that his twin is Richard the Lionheart and he is of Royal stock and must bring them both back.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 12 February, 2011.

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