Start the Revolution Without Me

Start the Revolution Without Me

90 mins | Comedy, History | Aug. 14, 1970

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

Start the Revolution Without Me

90 mins | Comedy, History | Aug. 14, 1970

Start the Revolution Without Me
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Warner Bros. Pictures, NorBud Productions, Norbud Films
Original title Start the Revolution Without Me
Directors Georges Grodzenczyk, Bud Yorkin
Writers Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen

Cast

Gene Wilder

as Claude / Philippe

Donald Sutherland

as Charles / Pierre

Hugh Griffith

as King Louis

Jack MacGowran

as Jacques

Billie Whitelaw

as Queen Marie

Victor Spinetti

as Duke d'Escargot

Ewa Aulin

as Christina

Helen Fraser

as Mimi

Rosalind Knight

as Helene de Sisi

Harry Fowler

as Marcel

Murray Melvin

as Blind Man

Ken Parry

as Dr. Boileau

Orson Welles

as The Narrator

Maxwell Shaw

as Duke de Sisi

Jacques Maury

as Lt. Sorel

Graham Stark

as Andre Coupe

Barry Lowe

as The Sergeant

George A. Cooper

as Dr. Duval

Michael Rothwell

as Paul Duval

Denise Coffey

as Anne Duval