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Released July 22, 1970
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Warner Bros.
96 min. (Feature Film)

It's 1944, and Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis) is the richest man in the world, bored by life until he receives a new challenge... his draft notice. Labeled 4-F, he joins with three other medical washouts, Sid Hackle (Jan Murray), Peter Bland (Steve Franken) and Terry Love (Dack Rambo), to train as their own commando unit and invade Europe in Byers' yacht. Along with Byers' chauffeur and butler, the small band of mercenaries decide to break the stalemated Italian front at Anzio. Byers is a dead ringer for the Nazi commander in Italy, Field Marshal Erik Kesselring, and our heroes infiltrate his chalet, eliminate Kesselring and his SS guards, and take their place.

US forces suspect a trap when the Italian and German forces retreat under the "new" Kesselring's orders, and refuse to advance. But the commandos' plans take a favorable turn of events when Field Marshal Von Budweiser (Benny Rubin) arrives, and "Kesselring" learns that he's the German Chief of Staff's inside man in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Joe Besser has a small role as an Army Sergeant.

Character actor Sidney Miller ('Adolf Hitler') had a career behind the camera, and directed The Three Stooges in THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK (1960). As a child actor, he appeared with Ted Healy in THE BAND PLAYS ON (1934).

Look for Stooge supporting players Benny Rubin, Kenneth MacDonald, Myron Healey, Milton Frome, Norman Leavitt and Paul Winchell.

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WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT? on IMDb

Jerry Lewis
Brendan Byers III / Field Marshal Erik Kesselring

Jan Murray
Sid Hackle

Steve Franken
Peter Bland

Dack Rambo
Terry Love

John Wood
Finkel

Sidney Miller
Adolf Hitler

William O'Connell
Mr. Prescott

Milton Frome
Mr. Baylick

Norman Leavitt
Mr. Benson

Damian London
Executive

Walter Kray
Executive

Myron Healey
Army Major doctor

Michael Ross
Induction Sergeant

Bobo Lewis
Camille Bland

Kathleen Freeman
Bland's mother

Susan Evans
Pregnant girl

Gilchrist Stuart
Mr. Firestone

George Takei
Capt. Yamashita

Robert Middleton
Mr. Colonico

Danny Dayton
Man in car

Tricia Young
Girl on yacht

Toni Moss
Girl on yacht

Bonnie Emerson
Girl on yacht

Hallie Bowes
Girl on yacht

Pam Smith
Girl on yacht

Leona Early
Girl on yacht

Nancy Bonniwell
Girl on yacht

Vincent Van Lynn
Cmdr. Hauptmann

Martin Kosleck
Capt. Schmidt

Robert Carson
Capt. Overman

Joe Besser
Dock master Sergeant

Bob Lauher
Sgt. Koivel

Harold J. Stone
General Buck

Danny Klega
1st checkpoint guard

King Moody
2nd checkpoint guard

Rick Traeger
Checkpoint soldier

Artie Lewis
SS guard

Karl Lukas
SS guard

Mel Novak
SS guard

Gary Crosby
SS guard

Paul Winchell
Capt. Schroeder

Joe E. Tata
Schroeder's aide

Roy Gleason
Pvt. Erich Linhoffer

Ron Lewis
Lt. Hans Levitch

Fritz Feld
Gen. Von Runstadt

Frank Mitchell
German officer

John Nolan
German officer

Henry Slate
German officer

Kaye Ballard
Senora Messina

William Wellman Jr.
Sgt. Mosgrove

Neil Hamilton
Pentagon Chief of Staff

Kenneth MacDonald
Pentagon Navy Admiral

Herb Vigran
Pentagon Army General

Olan Soule
Pentagon General

Jay Jostyn
Pentagon Navy Admiral

Ralph Montgomery
Pentagon Army officer

Benny Rubin
Field Marshal Von Budweiser

Art Passarella
Von Heinekin

Eddie Shaeffer
Von Schlitz

Brad Logan
Bunker SS guard

Jimmy Joyce
Adm. Von Schlegel

Bob Harvey
Hitler aide with Balkan plans

Med Flory
G. I. Sgt. in POW camp

David Landfield
G. I. Cpl. in POW camp

Jerry Fujikawa
Japanese Naval officer

Teru Shimada
Japanese Naval officer

Clarence Lung
Japanese Naval officer

Richard Loo
Japanese Naval officer

Vincent Barbi
SS officer

Sandy Dvore
SS officer

Nicky Blair
SS officer

Ted Sizemore
SS officer

Lew Brown
Officer

Joe Scott
German officer

Irving Benson
German officer

Robert May
German soldier

Carl Saxe
German guard

Harry Hollins
German guard

Carl Saxe
stunts

Timothy Blake
Maid, scene deleted

Stephanie Mann
Maid, scene deleted

Carol Andreson
Maid, scene deleted

Larry J. Blake
Engineer, scene deleted

George DeNormand
Engineer, scene deleted

Harry Hauss
Pilot, scene deleted

Byron Kane
Stage announcer, scene deleted

David Lipp
Rumson, scene deleted

Harry Morton
Von Block, scene deleted


Jerry Lewis
Director

Joe E. Stabile
Executive Producer

Jerry Lewis
Producer

Dee Caruso
Story and Screenplay

Gerald Gardner
Story and Screenplay

W. Wallace Kelley
Director of Photography

Russel Wiles
Film Editor

John Beckman
Production Designer

Ralph S. Hurst
Set Decorator

Louis Y. Brown
Music Composer and Conductor

Sonny Burke
Music Supervisor

Dan Wallin
Score Mixer

Guy C. Verhille
Costume Design

Hal Bell
Assistant Director

Russell Saunders
Production Manager

Dick Johnson
Camera Operator

Kyme Meade
Camera Operator

Michael S. McLean
Assistant Film Editor

Bob Harvey
Assistant to the Producer

Mike Romersa
Assistant to the Producer

Ralph Webb
Special Effects

Richard M. Rubin
Property Master

Hazel W. Hall
Script Supervisor

Don Record
Title Designer

Bernie Abramson
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