Up Pompeii - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Up Pompeii. Image shows from L to R: Scrubba (Adrienne Posta), Lurcio (Frankie Howerd). Copyright: STUDIOCANAL

Genre

Released

1971

Creator

Stars

Frankie Howerd, Patrick Cargill, Bill Fraser, Michael Hordern, Barbara Murray, Lance Percival, Adrienne Posta, Bernard Bresslaw and more

Writer

Sid Colin

Director

Bob Kellett

Producers

Ned Sherrin and Beryl Vertue

Company

Associated London Films Limited

After a chance encounter in the market, slave Lurcio is sucked into a webb of deceit and intrigue as Prosperus Maximus and a band of followers plot to assassinate Emperor Nero.

When he unwittingly becomes holder of a list of their names, the would-be assassins resolve to dispatch both him and his master, Ludicrus Sextus. The plotters, however, reckon without the smarts and hapless luck of the slave, and miscalculate the effect of his master's honesty.

Soon Lurcio is under the employ of Nero himself, who is well aware of the plot - but he's not all he seems, and the gods are none best pleased at the Pompeii inhabitants' actions...