Advance to the Rear

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.

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  George Marshall

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  Glenn Ford
  Capt. Jared Heath
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  Stella Stevens
  Martha Lou Williams
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  Melvyn Douglas
  Col. Claude Brackenbury
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  Jim Backus
  Gen. Willoughby
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  Joan Blondell
  Easy Jenny
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  Andrew Prine
  Pvt. Owen Selous
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  Jesse Pearson
  Cpl. Silas Geary
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  Alan Hale Jr.
  Sgt. Beauregard Davis
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  James Griffith
  Hugo Zattig
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  Whit Bissell
  Capt. Queeg
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  Michael Pate
  Thin Elk
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  Joe Brooks
  Pvt. Luke Bannerman (uncredited)
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  Robert Carson
  Col. Holbert (uncredited)
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  Yvonne Craig
  Ora (uncredited)
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  Britt Ekland
  Greta (uncredited)
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  Preston Foster
  Gen. Bateman (uncredited)
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  Charles Horvath
  Pvt. Jones (uncredited)
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  Paul Langton
  Maj. Forsythe (uncredited)
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  Frank Mitchell
  Pvt. Belmont (uncredited)
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  Hal Needham
  Rebel Soldier (uncredited)