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| screenplay = Melvin Frank Michael Pertwee | starring = Zero Mostel Jack Gilford Phil Silvers | music = Stephen Sondheim | cinematography = Nicolas Roeg | editing = John Victor-Smith | distributor = United Artists | released = | runtime = 99 minutes | country = United Kingdom United States | language = English | budget = $2 million | gross = $3,390,000 (US/ Canada)〔"Big Rental Films of 1967", ''Variety'', 3 January 1968 p 25. Please note these figures refer to rentals accruing to the distributors.〕 | italic title = no }} ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' is a 1966 farce musical comedy film, based on the stage musical of the same name. It was inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251-183 B.C.) – specifically ''Pseudolus'', ''Miles Gloriosus'' and ''Mostellaria'' – and tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. The film was directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford reprising their stage roles. It also features Buster Keaton in his last motion picture role; Phil Silvers, for whom the stage musical was originally intended; and Lester favorites Michael Crawford, Michael Hordern and Roy Kinnear. The musical was adapted for the screen by Melvin Frank and Michael Pertwee from the stage musical ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. ==Plot== In the city of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero, Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) is "the lyingest, cheatingest, sloppiest slave in all of Rome", whose only wish is to buy his freedom from his master's parents, the henpecked Senex (Michael Hordern) and his dominating wife Domina (Patricia Jessel). When he finds out that his master, Senex's handsome but dim son Hero (Michael Crawford), has fallen in love with Philia (Annette Andre), a beautiful virgin courtesan from the house of Marcus Lycus (Phil Silvers), buyer and seller of beautiful women next door, Pseudolus makes a deal: he will get the girl for Hero in return for his freedom. Unfortunately, the virgin has been sold to the great Roman soldier, Captain Miles Gloriosus (Leon Greene), who even now is on his way from conquering Crete to claim her as his bride. Pseudolus blackmails his overseer, Hysterium (Jack Gilford) into masquerading as the corpse of Philia to fool the captain, but things go wrong at every turn. In the end, the boy gets the girl; Senex's next-door neighbor Erronius (Buster Keaton) finds that Philia and Miles Gloriosus are in fact his long-lost children; and Pseudolus gets his freedom, a beautiful concubine to be his wife, and a dowry of 10,000 minae, compliments of Marcus Lycus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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