Further Up Pompeii

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Further Up Pompeii

1975

0h 44m

7.6(7 votes)

Comedy

Overview

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Frankie Howerd

Lurcio

Mark Dignam

Ludicrus Sextus

Elizabeth Larner

Ammonia

Kerry Gardner

Nausius

Jennifer Lonsdale

Erotica

Jeanne Mockford

Senna the soothsayer

John Cater

Pollux

Leon Greene

Prodigius

Olwen Griffiths

Hernia

Cyril Appleton

Creative team

Directed by: David Croft
Written by: Talbot Rothwell

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