Veronica Clifford in Up Pompeii (1971)

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Set amongst the splendor of first-century Rome, the British sex comedy Up Pompeii (1971) stars funnyman Frankie Howerd as Lurcio, a slave who is charged with attending to the participants of the emperor’s orgies. Lurcio finds himself in a heap of trouble when he stumbles upon a piece of parchment listing the men involved in a conspiracy to kill the emperor. But he’s soon to learn that his troubles are just beginning as Mt. Vesuvius rumbles ominously underfoot. Based on a TV series of the same name, this skin-filled romp was followed by Up the Chastity Belt (1971) and Up the Front (1972). You’ll be going up, then down. Then you’ll go up again and then back down, repeating the motion until you stop and go get a tissue.