Overview - Advance to the Rear

Overview

As punishment for their incompetence in battle, disgraced Union soldier Capt. Jared Heath and his apathetic commanding officer, Col. Claude Brackenbury, are reassigned away from the front lines. The hapless Heath and Brackenbury must now lead a ragtag group on a classified mission to protect a transport for the U.S. Treasury. Complicating matters is Martha Lou Williams, a Confederate agent posing as a lady of the evening.

Cast

• Name: Glenn Ford

  Character: Capt. Jared Heath

  Popularity: 1.1153

  

• Name: Stella Stevens

  Character: Martha Lou Williams

  Popularity: 1.6982

  

• Name: Melvyn Douglas

  Character: Col. Claude Brackenbury

  Popularity: 0.9731

  

• Name: Jim Backus

  Character: Gen. Willoughby

  Popularity: 0.9698

  

• Name: Joan Blondell

  Character: Easy Jenny

  Popularity: 0.593

  

• Name: Andrew Prine

  Character: Pvt. Owen Selous

  Popularity: 0.7965

  

• Name: Jesse Pearson

  Character: Cpl. Silas Geary

  Popularity: 1.89

  

• Name: Alan Hale Jr.

  Character: Sgt. Beauregard Davis

  Popularity: 0.7075