Samuel A. Peeples William Bowers Robert Carson (uncredited)
Based on
Company of Cowards 1957 novel by Jack Schaefer, inspired by 1956 article Saturday Evening Post by William Chamberlain
Produced by
Ted Richmond
Starring
Glenn Ford Stella Stevens Melvyn Douglas
Cinematography
Milton Krasner
Edited by
Archie Marshek Leonard Lieberman
Music by
Randy Sparks Hugo Montenegro performed by The New Christy Minstrels
Distributed by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
June 10, 1964 (1964-06-10)
Running time
100 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$1,100,000 (US/ Canada)[1]
Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 American Western comedy film set in the American Civil War. Directed by George Marshall, and starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, and Melvyn Douglas. The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, whose inspiration was an article by William Chamberlain, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1956. Chamberlain recounts the apocryphal Civil War stories of "Company Q" (19th century army slang for the sick list), a unit composed of coward soldiers who are given a second chance to prove their bravery. The film had the novel title in pre-production and when released in the United Kingdom. However, the novel had none of the comedic elements of the film which retained only the basic idea of a unit formed out of men who had been court-martialed for cowardice and sent out west as well as some character names.
The story may have been the inspiration for the later ABC-TV sitcom F-Troop (1965-1967).[citation needed].
^"Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p. 39. Please note this figure is rentals accruing to distributors not total gross.
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