[Bounci]

It's Bill Fraser again, and this time he gets to grips with the adorable Madeline Smith (as a maid) in the film Up The Front (1972). He plays a butler called Groping (well, this is Frankie Howerd), and ends up tying her up and stripping her clothing in a scene I've had to slightly edit for dubious dialogue. Indeed, he later gets to pat a brothel girl's bum, so he must of enjoyed his time filming this! In real life he was married to Mrs Fox from Dad's Army and ran a Sweet shop on the side. Meanwhile it was Frankie Howerd who encouraged Madeline Smith to bare the flesh in films, as he told her that "to deny her femininity was against nature" (recounted in TV documentary "Heroes of comedy - Frankie Howerd" by Smith herself). Which makes Howerd even more of a legend than he was before.