The Boys from Syracuse (film)

The Boys from Syracuse
Directed byA. Edward Sutherland
Screenplay byLeonard Spigelgass
Paul Gerard Smith
Charles Grayson
Produced byJules Levey
StarringAllan Jones
CinematographyJoseph A. Valentine
Edited byMilton Carruth
Music byCharles Previn
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • July 18, 1940 (1940-07-18)
(Syracuse, New York)[1][2]
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Boys from Syracuse is a 1940 American musical film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, based on the 1938 stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, which in turn was loosely based on the play The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; one for Best Visual Effects (John P. Fulton, Bernard B. Brown, Joe Lapis) and one for Best Art Direction (Jack Otterson).[3][4]

  1. ^ Hanson, Patricia King, ed. (1993). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1931-1940. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 2476. ISBN 0-520-07908-6.
  2. ^ Croyle, Jonathan (July 18, 2016). "Syracuse goes Grecian for 'Boys from Syracuse' premiere in 1940". syracuse.com.
  3. ^ "The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 12, 2011.
  4. ^ "NY Times: The Boys from Syracuse". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2008.