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{{short description|1971 film by Bob Kellett}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Up Pompeii
| image = "Up_Pompeii"_(1971).jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Bob Kellett]]
| producer = [[Ned Sherrin]]
| writer = [[Sid Colin]]
| starring = [[Frankie Howerd]]<br />[[Michael Hordern]] <br /> [[Barbara Murray]]
| music = [[Carl Davis]]
| cinematography = [[Ian Wilson (cinematographer)|Ian Wilson]]
| editing = Al Gell
| studio = [[EMI Films|Anglo-EMI]]<br />London Associated Films
|distributor=MGM-EMI
| released =11 March 1971
| runtime = 90 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
|budget=£200,000<ref name="emi">{{Cite book|page=104|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQZ0DwAAQBAJ&q=%22emi+films+and+the+limits+of+british+cinema%22&pg=PA1|title=EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema|first=Paul|last= Moody|publisher=Springer|date= Oct 19, 2018|isbn = 9783319948034}}</ref>
}}

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

==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==
{{Cast listing|
* [[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 (boxer)|Billy Walker]] as Prodigious
* [[Russell Hunter]] as Jailor
* Laraine Humphrys as Flavia
* [[Kenneth Cranham]] as 1st Christian
* [[George Woodbridge (actor)|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
* [[Ian Trigger]] as Odius
}}

==Production==
The [[Robert Stigwood]] Organisation had money in the film.<ref>City comment: Thanks to the pound Swan, Hunter; Stigwood, Robert. The Guardian 2 Aug 1972: 16.</ref>

A version was made for American audiences with six minutes of additional footage including a prologue and epilogue and Lurcio setting the scene.<ref name="emi"/>

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was the 10th most popular film at the British box office in 1971.<ref>{{cite news|first=Peter|last=Waymark|title=Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London, England|date=30 December 1971|page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=269|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTmrBgAAQBAJ&q=guinness+book+of+box+office+hits+swern+childs&pg=PA268|title=British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure|first=Sue|last= Harper|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|date= 2011|isbn = 9780748654260}}</ref> By June 1972 it had earned EMI a profit of £20,000.<ref>{{Cite book|page=83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQZ0DwAAQBAJ&q=%22emi+films+and+the+limits+of+british+cinema%22&pg=PA1|title=EMI Films and the Limits of British Cinema|first=Paul|last= Moody|publisher=Springer|date= Oct 19, 2018|isbn = 9783319948034}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0067916|title=Up Pompeii}}

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