START THE REVOLUTION WITHOUT ME (1970)- PG

"Start the Revolution Without Me" is a comical, loose adaptaptation of Charle's Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities" and Dumas' "The Corsican Bros," providing a wild comedy about the French Revolution a la the comic mastermind, Mel Brooks. When a set of identical twins are accidentally mixed-up at brith, one is sent to live out a pretentious aristocratic lifestyle while the other is subjected to your typically poor and lowly peasant life. Fate intervenes, however, placing them in the midst of a palace as history goes down all around them.

The cast includes: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Victor Spinetti, Billie Whitelaw, Jack MacGowran, Helen Fraser, Ewa Aulin, Maxell Shaw, Murray Melvin, with Orson Wells.

Written by Lawrence J. Cohen and Fred Freeman.

Directed by Bud Yorkin.

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