A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Blu-ray)
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford & Buster Keaton | |
Performer: | Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern, Patricia Jessel & Myrna White | |
Directed by | Richard Lester | |
Edited by | John Victor Smith | |
Screenplay by | Michael Pertwee & Melvin Frank | |
Cinematography by | Nicolas Roeg | |
Produced by | Melvin Frank |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1966 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Ken Thorne
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 6/10 --
A funny thing happened on the way to Hollywood: A good musical-comedy lost much of its fizz.
Movie Metropolis
Flip, glib and sophisticated, yet rump-slappingly bawdy and fast-paced, Forum is a capricious look at the seamy underside of classical Rome through a 20th-century hipster's shades.
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Variety
3 stars out of 5 -- [The film] boasts inspired casting....Phil Silvers glitters....Michael Hordern is disturbingly persuasive...
Uncut
If the movie at times doesn't quite hang together, it still is made up of a series of scenes that are individually hilarious.
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Cleveland Press
Rating: 2/4 --
Humorous to an extent, but lacking the bang you might expect from a big screen musical.
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Cinema Sight
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Perhaps the first modern film musical -- breaking with and even making sport of the theatrical artifice that had been bogging down the genre for nearly a decade.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: C- --
The middling low-brow slapstick comedy overdoses on the brassy Zero Mostel hamming it up.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Based on the Broadway musical comedy, this farce set in Ancient Rome follows slave and scam-artist Pseudolus (Zero Mostel in a signature role) as he attempts to win his freedom by brokering the sale of a virgin. Stephen Sondheim's score adds to the appeal.
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