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The Boys from Syracuse
“BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!”
6.4 / 10• 1940• 1h 13m•NR• English
ComedyMusic
Storyline
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
Cast & Crew
Allan Jones
Antipholus von Eph/Sy
Lead
Martha Raye
Luce
Alan Mowbray
Angelo
Irene Hervey
Adriana
Joe Penner
Dromio of Ephesus / Dromio of Syracuse
Charles Butterworth
Duke of Ephesus
Rosemary Lane
Phyllis
Samuel S. Hinds
Angeen
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. A. Edward Sutherland's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Boys from Syracuse is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
