The Boys from Syracuse
BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!
1940 1 hour 13 minutesBROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!
1940 1 hour 13 minutes
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
30th July 1940
86 years ago
1 hour 13 minutes
Finishes at 12:16am
Nominated for 2 Oscars. 2 nominations total
5.8/10
58%
58%
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