Up Jumped a Swagman is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd and Suzy Kendall.

The film was made when Frank Ifield was at the height of his popularity, and attempts to reproduce the success of Cliff Richard's musicals.

[7]Miles also said the leading lady fell pregnant before shooting started; he replaced her with Suzy Kendall (making her film debut).

[4][7] The film was shot at MGM's London studios at Boreham Wood, with exteriors at Gravesend Docks, St. Paul's Cathedral, Hyde Park, the Albert Memorial and Elstree town.

But likeable personalities don't make good films, and it soon becomes all too apparent that both the director's ideas and the techniques he uses to express them are second-hand.

For the film turns out to be not so much a vehicle for Frank Ifield as a hesitant attempt to prove that anything Richard Lester can do, Christopher Miles can do better.

"You've got to have a sound," Richard Wattis tells Frank Ifield, and as he opens his mouth to demonstrate, a lion roars on the soundtrack. ....

Ken Higgins' photography sometimes catches the right off-hand mood, and Donal Donnelly and Ronald Radd add a little sparkle to a generally lifeless screenplay.