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Bookmark this pageRoman Scandals (1933)
Director: Frank Tuttle
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From Time Out Film Guide
A pleasantly entertaining pot-pourri of humour, song, and dance, structured around the goggle-eyed gaucheries of Cantor as the small-town boy, run out by the authorities because of his troublesome social conscience, who dreams that he is a slave in Ancient Rome (graduating to the perilous post of food-taster for Arnold's Emperor). Though the wit has dated somewhat, it's still worth seeing for its typically lavish Goldwyn production values: Richard Day's impressive set designs, Gregg Toland's camerawork, and Busby Berkeley's usual excesses in a slave-market scene, populated by masses of all but naked Goldwyn girls.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Edward Arnold, Gloria Stuart, David Manners, Verree Teasdale, Alan Mowbray full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 92 mins
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