Advance to the Rear
- Released on
- Runtime
- 97 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Glenn Ford
- Stella Stevens
- Melvyn Douglas
- Jim Backus
- Joan Blondell
- Andrew Prine
- Jesse Pearson
- Alan Hale Jr.
- James Griffith
- Whit Bissell
- Michael Pate
- Joe Brooks
- Robert Carson
- Yvonne Craig
- Britt Ekland
- Preston Foster
- Charles Horvath
- Paul Langton
- Frank Mitchell
- Hal Needham
- Chuck Roberson
Director
- George Marshall
Producers
- Ted Richmond
Screenwriter
- William Bowers
- Samuel A. Peeples
