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Our Miss Fred is a 1972 British comedy film starring Danny La Rue, set during World War II. The film was also known by its video release titles Beyond the Call of Duty (Canada) and Operation: Fred (US). In the 1960s, La Rue was one of the highest paid entertainers in Britain, but this represents his only starring role in a feature film.
English Shakespearean actor now RASC Private Fred Wimbush is in the British army during the Battle of France. His skills result in his being asked to entertain the troops, but he is ordered to perform in drag. When the Germans capture his audience, he continues his disguise in women's clothes. Fred fears he will be shot as a spy. He has to fend off both French locals and German troops. The double entendres and bullets fly as he attempts his escape in the company of the pupils from an English girls' finishing school.
On a country lane he encounters Miss Flodden and Miss Lockhart who run an English girls' school. They ask him to fix their car ("Agatha") and is introduced to their five pupils on a tour of France: four English and one American, who are hiding in a barn. As the headmistress loudly declares that she loathes female impersonators and would gleefully turn them over to the Germans, Fred maintains his disguise. They suggest that Fred lose his flamboyant dress and instead dress as a teacher.
The English girls have a downed RAF airman, Squadron Leader Smallpiece hidden in a shed; Fred reveals his true identity to him. Fred steals a Nazi SS uniform to disguise Smallpiece. Fred drives around the French countryside with the girls encountering the Germans.
They head for an airfield and get in pretending to be a group of girls from the local brothel. Although they fail to catch a plane they attach "Agatha" to a barrage balloon and float off to safety.
Fred is recruited by the Special Operations Executive. In the final scene Fred, back in drag, is entertaining a group of Germans, singing "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", though not to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March.
The film was constructed specifically as a vehicle for La Rue. It was one of a number of comedy star vehicles made by Nat Cohen at EMI Films. Filming took place in June 1972.
LaRue later wrote in his memoirs, "Before finally agreeing to appear in the movie, I must have turned down at least twenty-five other offers because they were almost all stories about female impersonations, which wasn’t for me." The performer admitted "I was a little apprehensive about making films. I was very definitely a live performer and I had reservations about transferring to the larger screen."
Our Miss Fred
Our Miss Fred is a 1972 British comedy film starring Danny La Rue, set during World War II. The film was also known by its video release titles Beyond the Call of Duty (Canada) and Operation: Fred (US). In the 1960s, La Rue was one of the highest paid entertainers in Britain, but this represents his only starring role in a feature film.
English Shakespearean actor now RASC Private Fred Wimbush is in the British army during the Battle of France. His skills result in his being asked to entertain the troops, but he is ordered to perform in drag. When the Germans capture his audience, he continues his disguise in women's clothes. Fred fears he will be shot as a spy. He has to fend off both French locals and German troops. The double entendres and bullets fly as he attempts his escape in the company of the pupils from an English girls' finishing school.
On a country lane he encounters Miss Flodden and Miss Lockhart who run an English girls' school. They ask him to fix their car ("Agatha") and is introduced to their five pupils on a tour of France: four English and one American, who are hiding in a barn. As the headmistress loudly declares that she loathes female impersonators and would gleefully turn them over to the Germans, Fred maintains his disguise. They suggest that Fred lose his flamboyant dress and instead dress as a teacher.
The English girls have a downed RAF airman, Squadron Leader Smallpiece hidden in a shed; Fred reveals his true identity to him. Fred steals a Nazi SS uniform to disguise Smallpiece. Fred drives around the French countryside with the girls encountering the Germans.
They head for an airfield and get in pretending to be a group of girls from the local brothel. Although they fail to catch a plane they attach "Agatha" to a barrage balloon and float off to safety.
Fred is recruited by the Special Operations Executive. In the final scene Fred, back in drag, is entertaining a group of Germans, singing "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball", though not to the tune of the Colonel Bogey March.
The film was constructed specifically as a vehicle for La Rue. It was one of a number of comedy star vehicles made by Nat Cohen at EMI Films. Filming took place in June 1972.
LaRue later wrote in his memoirs, "Before finally agreeing to appear in the movie, I must have turned down at least twenty-five other offers because they were almost all stories about female impersonations, which wasn’t for me." The performer admitted "I was a little apprehensive about making films. I was very definitely a live performer and I had reservations about transferring to the larger screen."