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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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NR,1hr 40min
Genres:
Comedy,Musical
Released:
January 1, 1966
Director:
Richard Lester
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton  ...more
Synopsis: Director Richard Lester uses the Burt Shevelove/Larry Gelbart/Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical hit as a launching pad for some of his wildest slapstick gaggery. Zero Mostel repeats his stage role as Pseudolus, the cunning Roman slave who'll do anything to win his freedom. The plot hinges on three Roman houses next door to each another. One is the home of Pseudolus' masters: the philandering Senex (Michael Hordern), his domineering wife Domina (Patricia Jessel), and their handsome but empty-headed ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Merging director Richard Lester's 1960s verve with old-fashioned Broadway and vaudeville entertainment, the movie version of the stage hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is an engagingly frenetic slapstick musical. Though the number of winning Stephen Sondheim songs is scaled back, stars Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford, and Buster Keaton pile on the schtick as Mostel's labyrinthine ... Full Review
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Zero Mostel
Pseudolus
Phil Silvers
Lycus
Buster Keaton
Erronius
Jack Gilford
Hysterius
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