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

Actors: Frank Thornton (actor), John Bluthal (actor), Phil Silvers (actor), Ricardo Palacios (actor), Michael Crawford (actor), Frank Elliott (actor), Jon Pertwee (actor), Alfie Bass (actor), Peter Butterworth (actor), John Bennett (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Melvin Frank (producer), Roy Kinnear (actor),

Plot: Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, to 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.

Keywords: acrobat, alliteration, ancient-rome, animated-title-sequence, aphrodisiac, aqueduct, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play, bordello
Genres: Comedy, Musical,
Taglines: Something for Everyone!

Quotes:

Hero: Hysterium, this is Philia.::Hysterium: Never mind who she is! Who IS she?

Lycus: Is it contagious?::Pseudolus: Have you ever seen a plague that wasn't?

Miles Gloriosus: Arrange food, drink, entertainment, and a sit-down orgy for fourteen.

Miles Gloriosus: Oh, her bridal bower becomes a burial bier of bitter bereavement!::Pseudolus: Very good! Can you say "Titus the tailor told ten tall tales to Titania the titmouse"?

Hero: People do not go around freeing slaves every day.::Pseudolus: Be the first. Start a fashion.

Lycus: If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times; do not fan the girls when they're wet! But you'll never learn, you'll be a eunuch all your life.

Domina's Mother: Gone to see a nose-grinder, indeed. He's cavorting with those courtesans.::Domina: But Mother, what can I do?::Domina's Mother: Return to Rome immediately, before he can do what no doubt he's already done. Go! [whips Dominia]

Domina: A common flesh-peddler in the house next to ours, disgusting!::Senex: Disgraceful, all that revolting flesh. Just next door...

Domina: That breeder woman, has she been thrown a mate yet?::Hysterium: Alas, she refuses just any slave. She demands to choose.::Senex: Choose? She'll breed and like it, like everyone. Well, almost everyone.

Hysterium: I live to grovel.