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1940

The Boys from Syracuse

Directed by A. Edward Sutherland
BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!

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

Duration

1h 13m

Released

July 30, 1940

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Cast27

  • Allan Jones
  • Martha Raye
  • Alan Mowbray
  • Irene Hervey
  • Joe Penner
  • Charles Butterworth
  • Rosemary Lane
  • Samuel S. Hinds
  • Tom Dugan

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