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Description: A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the...

Cast:
Eddie: Eddie Cantor
Olga: Ruth Etting
Princess Sylvia: Gloria Stuart
Emperor Valerius: Edward Arnold
Josephus: David Manners
Empress Agrippa: Verree Teasdale
Majordomo: Alan Mowbray
Manius: Jack Rutherford
Warren Finley Cooper: Willard Robertson
Storekeeper: Lee Kohlmar
Slave Girls: The Goldwyn Girls
Valerius' Soldier: Duke York
Official: Stanley Andrews
Caius - the Food Taster: Charles Arnt
Shantytown Resident: Gwen Zetter
Roman Citizen: Jack Richardson
Little Eddie: Billy Barty
Slave Market Soloist: Florence Wilson
Cop: Stanley Blystone
Goldwyn Girl: Jane Vance
Lady Slave Bidder: Louise Carver
Pete - Process Server: Davison Clark
Roman Spa Proprietress: Jane Darwell
Shantytown Donut Maker: Anna Demetrio
Slave Auctioneer: Stanley Fields
Nobleman: Charles K. French
Lucius - Josephus' Charioteer: Frank Hagney
Handmaiden: Carolynne Snowden
Mayor of West Rome: Harry Holman
Senator Idiot: John Ince
Torturer: Leo Willis
Elderly Shantytown Man: Gus Leonard
Senator Fool: Murdock MacQuarrie
Assistant Cook: Michael Mark
Bider at Slavemarket: Scotty Mattraw
Shantytown Cop: Bruce Mitchell
Slave: Gene O'Brien
Specialty Dancer: Aileen Riggin
Chef: Paul Porcasi
Male Slave Bidder: William Wagner
Woman: Emma Ray
Carpenter: Bob Reeves
Slave Auctioneer with Female Slaves: Dewey Robinson
Shantytown Boy: Buster Slaven
Litter Bearer: Blue Washington
Police Chief Charles Pratt: Charles C. Wilson
Boggs - the Museum Keeper: Clarence Wilson

Written by: George S. Kaufman, Robert E. Sherwood, William Anthony McGuire

Director: Frank Tuttle

Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Howard Productions

Release date: 29 Dec 1933