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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
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RICHARD ROBERTS
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Summary
Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) is the laziest, sloppiest, most conniving slave in all of Rome, whose only wish is to buy his freedom from his henpecked master Senex (Michael Hordern) and his dominating wife Domina (Patricia Jessel). When he finds out that Senex's handsome but none too smart son, Hero (Michael Crawford), has fallen in love with Philia (Annette Andre), a beautiful virgin concubine from the house of procurer Marcus Lycus (Phil Silvers) next door, Pseudolus makes a deal: he will get the girl for Hero, in return for his freedom. Unfortunately, the virgin has been sold to the great Roman general, Miles Gloriosus (Leon Greene), who even now is on his way from conquering Crete to claim her as his bride. Pseudolus blackmails his overseer, Hysterium (Jack Gilford) into masquerading as the corpse of Philia to fool the general, but, as they always must in a farce, things go wrong at every turn.
In the end, the boy gets the girl; Senex's next-door neighor, Erronius (Buster Keaton) finds the long-lost children he has spent years searching the world for; and Pseudolus gets his freedom and a beautiful concubine to be his wife, compliments of Marcus Lycus.
In the end, the boy gets the girl; Senex's next-door neighor, Erronius (Buster Keaton) finds the long-lost children he has spent years searching the world for; and Pseudolus gets his freedom and a beautiful concubine to be his wife, compliments of Marcus Lycus.
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