Title: All-Star Disaster
Product review: Producer-director Irwin Allen's answer to "Around the World in 80 Days" was this painfully bad 1957 adaptation of the Hendrik Willem van Loon book. Plenty of talent - and stock footage - goes to waste in "The Story of Mankind." Only Ronald Colman, Vincent Price, Harpo Marx (as Sir Isaac Newton), Groucho Marx (as Peter Minuit) and Peter Lorre (as Nero) manage to avoid total embarrassment. Allen's first disaster movie in every sense of the word. Sadly, the final screen appearances of Colman, Harpo and Chico Marx.
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