Advance to the Rear (1964)
June 10, 1964Release Date
Advance to the Rear (1964)
June 10, 1964Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Glenn Ford
Captain Heath
Stella Stevens
Martha Lou Williams
Melvyn Douglas
Colonel Brackenby
Jim Backus
General Willoughby
Joan Blondell
Jenny
Andrew Prine
Private Owen Selous
Jesse Pearson
Corporal Geary
Jesse Pearson
Corporal Geary
Alan Hale Jr.
Sergeant Davis
James Griffith
Hugo Zattig
Michael Pate
Thin Elk
Whit Bissell
Capt. Queeg
Robert Carson
Writer
Joe Brooks
Pvt. Luke Bannerman (uncredited)
George Marshall
Director
Robert Carson
Col. Holbert (uncredited)
Samuel A. Peeples
Writer
Yvonne Craig
Ora (uncredited)
William Bowers
Writer
Britt Ekland
Greta (uncredited)
Jack Schaefer
Writer
William Chamberlain
Writer
Preston Foster
Gen. Bateman (uncredited)
Ted Richmond
Producer
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Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 American Western comedy film set in the American Civil War. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, and Melvyn Douglas. The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, whose inspiration was an article by William Chamberlain, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1956. Chamberlain recounts the apocryphal Civil War stories of "Company Q" (19th century army slang for the sick list), a unit composed of coward soldiers who are given a second chance to prove their bravery. The film had the novel title in pre-production and when released in the United Kingdom. However, the novel had none of the comedic elements of the film which retained only the basic idea of a unit formed out of men who had been court-martialed for cowardice and sent out west as well as some character names.
The story may have been the inspiration for the later ABC-TV sitcom F-Troop (1965-1967).