Details

Release year: 1966

Storyline

A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Lester

Writers

Cast

Zero Mostel — Pseudolus
Phil Silvers — Marcus Lycus
Buster Keaton — Erronius
Michael Crawford — Hero

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Awards

1 win & 0 nominations

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Did you know

• While Buster Keaton often used a stunt double due to his illness, he improvised running into a tree branch and falling backwards onto the ground, much to the horror of director Richard Lester and crew.

• This was Buster Keaton's final movie before his death on February 1, 1966 at the age of seventy.

• It was always considered essential to this movie that Zero Mostel should repeat his Broadway success in the leading role, but the actor demanded director approval before he would agree to take part. He submitted a shortlist of five names, any of whom he would accept as director; Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Jean Renoir, Richard Lester, and Seth Holt. Richard Lester got the job.