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Advance to the Rear

5.0 97 mins Comedy   War   Western   1964
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): George Marshall

Release Date: 10 Wed, Jun 1964

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.

Casts of Advance to the Rear

Glenn Ford

as Capt. Jared Heath

Stella Stevens

as Martha Lou Williams

Melvyn Douglas

as Col. Claude Brackenbury

Jim Backus

as Gen. Willoughby

Joan Blondell

as Easy Jenny

Andrew Prine

as Pvt. Owen Selous

Jesse Pearson

as Cpl. Silas Geary

Alan Hale Jr.

as Sgt. Beauregard Davis

James Griffith

as Hugo Zattig

Whit Bissell

as Capt. Queeg

Michael Pate

as Thin Elk

Joe Brooks

as Pvt. Luke Bannerman (uncredited)

Robert Carson

as Col. Holbert (uncredited)

Yvonne Craig

as Ora (uncredited)

Britt Ekland

as Greta (uncredited)

Preston Foster

as Gen. Bateman (uncredited)

Charles Horvath

as Pvt. Jones (uncredited)

Paul Langton

as Maj. Forsythe (uncredited)

Frank Mitchell

as Pvt. Belmont (uncredited)

Hal Needham

as Rebel Soldier (uncredited)

Chuck Roberson

as Monk (uncredited)

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