Up Pompeii (film)

Up Pompeii
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Directed by	Bob Kellett
Produced by	Ned Sherrin
Written by	Sid Colin
Starring	Frankie Howerd Michael Hordern
Cinematography	Ian Wilson
Edited by	Al Gell
Distributed by	Anglo-EMI
Release date	1971
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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! (1969–1975).

Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) becomes the inadvertent possessor of a scroll bearing all the names of the proposed assassins of Nero (Patrick Cargill). The conspirators need to recover the scroll fast, but it has fallen into the hands of Lurcio's master, Ludicrus Sextus (Michael Hordern), 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.

The film was the 10th most popular movie at the British box office in 1971.