Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A - (Movie Clip) Erotic Pottery

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A -- (Original Trailer)

A madcap musical set in ancient Rome starring Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Michael Crawford and silent era comic Buster Keaton in a cameo appearance.

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A -- (Movie Clip) Was One A Good Year?

Bumbling Roman patrician teen Hero (Michael Crawford) launches himself toward a girl he admires, meeting his family slave Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), and together they agree to visit the bordello run by Lycus (Phil Silvers), early in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, 1966.

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, A -- (Movie Clip) Comedy Tonight!

Director Richard Lester with the opening tune, as catchy as any in composer Stephen Sondheim's catalog, delivered with the credits by star Zero Mostel as slave "Pseudolus," who gets caught by his owners (Michael Hordern, Patricia Jessel), in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, 1966.