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Which Way to the Front? is a american film of genre War directed by Jerry Lewis released in USA on 4 september 1970 with Jerry Lewis
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 4 september 1970
Length 1h32
Directed by Jerry Lewis
OriginUSA
Themes Military humor in film
Rating46%
Which Way to the Front? is a 1970 film starring Jerry Lewis. It would be Lewis' last released film for eleven years, until 1981's Hardly Working. The unreleased The Day the Clown Cried was filmed in the years between. Which Way to the Front? was released in July 1970 by Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is a rich playboy who enlists to fight in the war against the Axis powers, but is classified 4-F. He really wants to fight, so he enlists other 4-Fs and some loyal volunteers from his own service staff and forms his own army. He finances their training and equipment. Once completed, they travel to the front in Italy, with Byers impersonating a Nazi general named Eric Kesselring.Actors
Jerry Lewis
(Brendan Byers III)
Jan Murray
(Sid Hackle)
Joe Besser
(Dock Master)
Kathleen Freeman
(Bland's Mother)
Kaye Ballard
(Senora Messina)
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