The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
BROADWAY'S SENSATIONAL STAGE HIT...becomes the year's screen spectacle!
73 min
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
- Release date
- July 18, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Allan Jones as Antipholus of Ephesus
- Allan Jones as Antipholus of Syracuse
- Irene Hervey as Adriana
- Martha Raye as Luce
- Joe Penner as Dromio of Ephesus
- Joe Penner as Dromio of Syracuse
- Alan Mowbray as Angelo
- Charles Butterworth as Duke of Ephesus
- Rosemary Lane as Phyllis
- Samuel S. Hinds as Angeen
- Tom Dugan as Octavius
- Spencer Charters as Turnkey
Crew
- A. Edward Sutherland · Director
- George Abbott · Writer
- Charles Grayson · Writer
- Paul Gerard Smith · Writer
- Leonard Spigelgass · Writer
- Jules Levey · Producer
- Joseph A. Valentine · Cinematographer
- Milton Carruth · Editor