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Up Pompeii (film)
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Wikipedia article
'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!' (19691975).
Plot
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.
Cast
Production
The Robert Stigwood Organisation had money in the film.City comment: Thanks to the pound Swan, Hunter; Stigwood, Robert. The Guardian 2 Aug 1972: 16.
A version was made for American audiences with six minutes of additional footage including a prologue and epilogue and Lurcio setting the scene.
Reception
Box office
The film was the 10th most popular film at the British box office in 1971. By June 1972 it had earned EMI a profit of 20,000.References
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