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Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
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- The Bona Dea Scandal. This has it all! Each year the wives of prominent Senators conducted a secret rite of the Bona Dea. Only women were admitted. In 62 BC the event was hosted by Pompeia, wife of pontifex maximus Julius Caesar, but it was noticed that one of the guests was in fact...
- The Mutilation of the Hermai. Athenian toff Alcibiades was perhaps the original Bullingdon boy. He was also a brilliant military strategist who promised to turn around the Athenians' war against the Spartans with an audacious expedition against Sicily.
- The Trial of Verres. Gaius Verres was the governor of Sicily, whose trial in 70 BC for corruption became a symbol for the decadence of the political establishment of the Roman Republic: the charges against him included extortion, misappropriation of public funds and misuse of his powers of punishment.
- Messalina's Downfall. Thanks to Suetonius, Tacitus and Juvenal, the name Messalina has become a by-word for sexual licentiousness. According to them, the wife of Claudius had an array of lovers, and even competed against a prostitute in an all-night sex romp.
The first we meet, after an array of Roman archers try and use Eddie for target practice, is the harsh Josephius, played by David Manners as a character stroking his coiled whip with a little too much intensity for the family audience at home.
Roman Scandals ★★½ 1933. A penniless young man daydreams himself back to ancient Rome with uproarious results. Lucille Ball appears as one of the Goldwyn Girls.
College students should take note, Roman Scandals is just in time for final papers season. It captures the desire for escapism, the reprehensible social attitudes, and the New Deal optimism of the '30s.
Roman Scandals: Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold. A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Time Out says. 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...
