Advance to the Rear

June. 10,1964      
Rating:
5.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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