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Up the Chastity Belt is a British film of genre Comedy released in USA on 1 january 1971 with Frankie Howerd
Up the Chastity Belt (1972)
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Add to a movie listUp 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.
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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 characterised most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "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 camp homosexual rather than merry.Actors
Frankie Howerd
(Lurkalot/Richard the Lionheart)
Graham Crowden
(Sir Coward de Custard)
Bill Fraser
(Sir Braggart de Bombast)
Norman Beaton
(Blacksmith)
David Prowse
(Sir Grumbel)
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