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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1966

Richard Lester

Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford ...

6.6

3,654

Comedy. Musical Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the house of Lycus, a slave dealer specializing in beautiful women. Pseudolus concocts a deal in which he will be freed if he can procure the girl for young Hero. Of course, it can't be that simple as everything begins to go wrong.

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety Staff Variety	"Flip, glib and sophisticated"
		Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"A spasmodically successful farce taken along at breakneck pace so that half of the good gags don't have time to sink in, and half of the bad ones fortunately disappear in the mêlée."

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