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Released
1964 · FILM

Advance to the Rear

You've met the Rat Pack... now... meet the Mouse Pack!

Directed by
Runtime
97 min
ComedyWarWestern

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Archie MarshekShot by Milton R KrasnerScored by Randy Sparks

Also known as

  • Helden ohne Hosende
  • La furia de los cobardeses
  • Le Bataillon des lâchesfr
  • Compagnia di codardi?it

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