A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

Directors

Richard Lester

Cast

Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford, Annette Andre, Buster Keaton, Michael Hordern, Leon Greene, Patricia Jessel, Inga Nielsen, Peter Butterworth, Roy Kinnear, Pamela Brown, Alfie Bass, John Bluthal

The story

In the city of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero, Pseudolus is "the lyingest, cheatingest, sloppiest slave in all of Rome", whose only wish is to buy his freedom from his master's parents, the henpecked Senex and his overbearing wife, Domina. Pseudolus finds out that his master, Senex's naive son Hero, has fallen in love with Philia (destined to be a courtesan) from the house next door of Marcus Lycus, a slave trader. Pseudolus makes a deal: he will get the girl for Hero in return for his freedom.

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