The Boys from Syracuse

Jul 30, 1940

1h 13m

★ 5.8

BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!

Overview

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Anthipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wife of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husband, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus admit their love

Genres

Comedy

Music

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Cast

Antipholus von Eph/Sy

Allan Jones

Luce

Martha Raye

Angelo

Alan Mowbray

Adriana

Irene Hervey

Dromio of Ephesus / Dromio of Syracuse

Joe Penner

Duke of Ephesus

Charles Butterworth

Phyllis

Rosemary Lane

Angeen

Samuel S. Hinds

Octavius

Tom Dugan

Turnkey

Spencer Charters

Woman

Doris Lloyd

Announcer

Larry J. Blake

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