Further Up Pompeii

Mar 31, 1975

0h 44m

★ 7.8

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"

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

BBC

Further Up Pompeii Trailers

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Cast

Lurcio

Frankie Howerd

Ludicrus Sextus

Mark Dignam

Ammonia

Elizabeth Larner

Nausius

Kerry Gardner

Erotica

Jennifer Lonsdale

Senna the soothsayer

Jeanne Mockford

Pollux

John Cater

Prodigius

Leon Greene

Hernia

Olwen Griffiths

Cyril Appleton

Scrubba

Lindsay Duncan

Filthia

Anita Richardson

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