Up the Chastity Belt
| Up the Chastity Belt | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bob Kellett |
| Produced by | Terry Glinwood Ned Sherrin |
| Written by | Sid Colin Ray Galton Alan Simpson |
| Starring | Frankie Howerd |
| Music by | Carl Davis |
| Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
| Editing by | Al Gell |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Running time | 94 min |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Up the Chastity Belt (also released as Naughty Knights in the USA) is a 1971 British film, a spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! that starred Frankie Howerd and was directed by Bob Kellett.
Cast members
- Frankie Howerd
- Graham Crowden
- Bill Fraser
- Roy Hudd
- Hugh Paddick
- Eartha Kitt
- Anna Quayle
- Royce Mills
- Lance Percival
This article related to the cinema of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Synopsis
The follow-up to the film version of the BBC TV comedy series Up Pompeii, starring Frankie Howerd, was written by Talbot Rothwell, the writer of the most successful of the Carry On movies from the 1960s, who also wrote the scripts for the TV series. Howerd played dual roles as King Richard the Lionheart and cowardly peasant Lurkalot (his character in Up Pompeii was the slave Lurcio). The plot served as an excuse to serve up the usual collection of puns and double entendres that characterized most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "Oh for a Knight for My Nights" and Hugh Paddick (of Julian and Sandy fame in the Round the Horne BBC radio series) as a notable Robin Hood, leader of a band of men who were gay rather than merry. Reviewed in Keeping the British End Up, the history of British Sex Comedies.
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