Up Front
Film poster
Directed by	Alexander Hall
Screenplay by	Stanley Roberts
Produced by	Leonard Goldstein
Starring	David Wayne Tom Ewell Marina Berti
Cinematography	Russell Metty
Edited by	Milton Carruth
Music by	Joseph Gershenson
Production company	Universal-International
Distributed by	Universal-International
Release date	March 5, 1951 (1951-03-05)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.95 million (US rentals)[1]

Up Front is a 1951 American comedy film directed by Alexander Hall and starring Tom Ewell and David Wayne very loosely based on Bill Mauldin's World War II characters Willie and Joe. Mauldin repudiated it and refused his advising fee; he claimed never to have seen it.^[2] It takes place during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

Plot

Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front, are good soldiers in combat, but meet the antics of gung-ho Captain Johnson and other military snafus with a barrage of wry comments. On a 3-day pass in Naples, Joe's penchant for wine and women involves the pair with luscious Emi Rosso and her moonshiner father, whose tangled affairs land them in ever deeper trouble.

Cast