1957 Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind - 1957 b&w trailer - comedy - director Irwin Allen - stars Ronald Colman - Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price - guest stars Marx brothers - Groucho - Harpo - Chico - Agnes Moorehead - Francis X. Bushman, Charles Coburn - Marie Windsor - John Carradine and more - a history of man - evil - steam emitted from vat, triton emerges - satanic magic - devil (Price) w/ mustache and goatee c/u flame burns - Price as devil blows out flame on match - c/u other man (Colman) - c/u Price and Colman in f/g w/ saintly figure on cloud in b/g - Roman bacchanal, bacchanalia - c/u Lorre as Emperor Nero - m/c Cleopatra (Virginia Mayo) walks to camera in her bedroom chamber - interior cave, caveman pushes cavewoman against cave wall - romans - 19th century society , woman wears wigs c/u Joan of Arc (Hedy Lamarr) w/ knights - c/u Cleopatra (Mayo) kisses Marc Antony (Helmut Dantine) - m/c/u emperor (Lorre) plays lyre - pilgrims and American Indians - c/u Groucho is dressed as pilgrim, talks to Indian chief - chief says no drink! and no smoke as Groucho smokes his cigar, wears glasses (spoof) Groucho, plays Peter Minnew (sp?), says, How about girls? as he looks at chief's daughter, Pocahontas type - Chief says no girls! - Groucho looks at chief's daughter and asks What about her?, chief replies that no girl, that my daughter! and Groucho replies That's what he thinks! - funny c/u Shakespeare (Reginald Gardner) - c/u Marie Antoinette in tall wig w/ ringlets - 18th century France - Agnes Moorehead plays Queen Elizabeth, sits on throne, c/u Harpo Marx as Isaac Newton - Dennis Hopper plays Napoleon, Marie Windsor as Josephine, c/u Hopper and Windsor - Anthony Dextor plays Columbus, Spanish explorer, Chico Marx plays a monk who defends him, they sit at table in monastery - m/c high judge, Cedrick Hardwicke - Charles Coburn as Hippocrates, father of medicine - ancient laboratory - Coburn w/ sick man at bedside w/ woman group of Pilgrims - people in prayer - saint -like in contrast to m/s blonde female dances in Greek or Roman palace, a sinner, large flames burn from urns - e/c/u man yells (no sound) , savage or hun, Mongol, man in fur hat, beard, long mustache - scientist, civilized person, man works w/ formula in lab or room- Price and Colman discuss art, oil painting or portrait of woman in b/g - brief shot medieval village, no graphics - Irwin Allen directs movie Marx brothers last theatrical film as a team yet do not appear together (from Hendrik Van Loon's Inspired Cavalcade of the Human Comedy)