<P> Sondheim's music was adapted for the film version of Forum by Ken Thorne, who previously worked with The Beatles on Help! (1965). Thorne won the only award that Forum received, a 1967 Academy Award for "Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment". </P> <P> Although the musical had originally been written with Phil Silvers in mind, Zero Mostel starred on Broadway as Pseudolus, and Richard Lester was his choice to direct the film version . Other directors who were considered included Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Mike Nichols . </P> <P> It was filmed at the Samuel Bronston Studios in Madrid, Spain, and on location around that city, on an estimated budget of $2 million . Filming took place from September to November 1965 . </P> <P> Jack Gilford was also re-creating his stage role, as Hysterium, and there are other connections to the Broadway production . Tony Walton, who designed the production, including the costumes, was also the designer of the Broadway show . For Walton, who was married to Julie Andrews from 1959 to 1967, Forum came at the beginning of both his film and stage careers: it was his second Broadway production, and his third film - he had designed costumes for Mary Poppins in 1964, and did the overall production design of Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 . </P>

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