Jan 28th  
The Story of Mankind    

(US 1957)                       

The devil and the spirit of Man make their various cases in a celestial trial for the existence of the human race.
A curiously conceived all-star pantomime pageant of semi-comic sketches through history, with occasionally some sincere moments which clash with the comedy, enjoyable as a camp oddity although quickly becoming a bore for its many uses of stock footage from other epics in between the scenes in plastic sets.

Written by: Irwin Allen, Charles Bennett, based on the book by Hendrik van Loon.
Producer/Director: Irwin Allen.
Starring: Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, John Carradine, Francis X. Bushman (Moses), Virginia Mayo (Cleopatra), Helmut Dantine (Marc Antony), Peter Lorre (Nero), Hedy Lamarr (Joan of Arc), Henry Daniell, Agnes Moorehead (Elizabeth I), Reginald Gardiner (Shakespeare), Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx (as Newton), Dennis Hopper (Napoleon), Nick Cravat, and others.
Photography: Nicholas Musuraca.
Music: Paul Sawtell.