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Lurcio learns of a Roman plan to kill all the slaves in Pompeii and decides he is safer in prison. Ludicrus, Ammonia and Nausius all make attempts to free Lurcio but are themselves arrested. Fortunately, Spartacus attacks the jail, defeats the army and sets everyone free.
Lurcio (Howerd) — slave of Ludicrus Sextus (Hordern), Ammonia (Murray), Erotica (Madeline Smith), and Nausius (Royce Mills) — is helping to plan for his master's latest orgy before the arrival of Emperor Nero (Cargill), when the soothsayer Cassandra (Rita Webb) warns of great trouble to come.
Lurcio is now a freedman with slaves of his own, but still has more than enough problems in his life. It could have served as a pilot episode for a revival of the series, but Howerd's death prevented that.
Jan 6, 2023 · Up Pompeii! was centred around the home of Lurcio’s master and mistress — the doddery, ineffectual Roman senator Ludicrus Sextus, and his sexually hungry wife, Ammonia (in her younger days known to all as ‘Madeira’ , because she was a piece of cake).
Successful 70s BBC comedy series Up Pompeii gets the big screen treatment, its star, camp comedian Frankie Howerd, reprising his role as downtrodden Roman slave Lurcio, who on this occasion becomes unwittingly embroiled in a plot to assassinate Emperor Nero.
Lucio teasingly asks about Pompey’s current situation and inquires after his mistress at the brothel. Pompey tells Lucio that he is to be imprisoned for being a bawd, and requests that Lucio pay for his bail. Lucio declines, saying prison is the bawd’s due.
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Mar 6, 2022 · Set in ancient Pompeii (pre-eruption) Howerd played a slave, Lurcio . Other main characters were Lurcio’s bumbling old master, Senator Ludicrus Sextus, the Senator’s promiscuous wife Ammonia, his daughter Erotica and his virginal son Nausius, who could forget the famous Senna the Soothsayer and Plautus. Summary.
