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It's Ludicrus Maximus - When the Forum Loses Its Decorum! morePlot:
Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Titer ye not moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Frankie Howerd | ... | Lurcio | |
| Michael Hordern | ... | Ludicrus Sextus | |
| Barbara Murray | ... | Ammonia | |
| Patrick Cargill | ... | Nero | |
| Lance Percival | ... | Bilius | |
| Julie Ege | ... | Voluptua | |
| Bill Fraser | ... | Prosperus Maximus | |
| Rita Webb | ... | Cassandra | |
| Bernard Bresslaw | ... | Nero's Champion / Gorgo | |
| Adrienne Posta | ... | Scrubba | |
| Madeline Smith | ... | Erotica | |
| Royce Mills | ... | Nausius | |
| Ian Trigger | ... | Odius | |
| Aubrey Woods | ... | Villanus | |
| Hugh Paddick | ... | Priest |
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Iceland:L | Australia:M | UK:15 (video rating) (1989) | UK:AA (original rating) | USA:RFilming Locations:
Elstree Film and TV Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UKFun Stuff
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Miscellaneous: In the same 'News of The World' DVD, Actors Warwick Sims and Jonathan Dennis are credited in the main titles but omitted from the end titles. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Lurcio: [during the opening credits when Frankie Howerd is displayed in small letters] Oh come on, bigger!
Lurcio: [the name gets bigger] Don't be ashamed of it!
Lurcio: [now bigger] Bigger!
[now even bigger]
Lurcio: Bigger!
Lurcio: [the name is now very large, and most of it has disappeared] Alright, don't go mad!
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Spin off from the 70's sitcom of the same name this film spins out the same gags over an hour and twenty minutes run time and gets away with it but only just. Frankie Howerd is again Lurcio the roman slave in ancient Pompeii getting involved in the evil machinations of the emperor Nero (Patrick Cargill) and the evil Brutus and his henchmen (Lance Percival).
If you liked the TV series you'll like this is the basic rule here, to a modern audience I doubt it would play well, Frankie Howerds routine is very much of it's time and place. But its very entertaining some of the gags are sign posted miles away but Frankie's personality, playing to the audience and comic timing are what make this entertaining.
The movie feels too much like a stretched out episode to be a classic like many TV shows spun off into movies in the 70's (On the Buses, Rising Damp, Porridge etc.) but its certainly worth a look for Up Pompei or Frankie Howerd fans.
Mostly funny, occasionally hilarious 7/10