Musings!

Martha Raye in THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE (1940) 

Based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, this popular broadway play was eventually made into a movie. Now, I don't know how the play was but the movie is good and some very bad. The production is very good. The humour falls flat. It seems PEPLUM comedies, Italian or Hollywood ones, suffer from the same fate. 

"That was a quick change. Did you ever belong to a fire department?"

I groaned. You see, the story is about twins and they...well, never mind! Anyway, in the screenshot, Martha dances and sings. It starts off sorta fine then it turns into a samba of sorts. The bulk of the movie (presumably not the play) are anachronistic jokes: modern stuff, like samba or a chariot made to look like a taxi with a meter, seen in Antiquity. The production is quite elaborate. They spent a lot of money on this thing. I like watching it. But that's about it. Only 73 minutes long.