Start the Revolution Without Me
6.6 /10 1 Votes
Initial DVD release July 1, 2003 Duration Language English | 6.6/10 Genre Comedy, History Screenplay Larry Cohen, Fred Freeman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Lawrence J. Cohen , Fred Freeman Release date February 4, 1970 Cast (Claude / Philippe), (Charles / Pierre), (King Louis), (Jacques), (Queen Marie), (Duke d'Escargot) Similar movies Sin City: A Dame to Kill For , Stuck on You , Twin Dragons , The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time , Goddess , Family United Tagline Gene Wilder... wilder than ever! |
Start the Revolution Without Me is a 1970 film directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Orson Welles (playing himself as narrator) and Victor Spinetti. The comedy is set in revolutionary France where two peasants are mistaken for the famous swordsmen, the Corsican Brothers. It can be considered a parody of a number of works of historical fiction about the French Revolution, including Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Dumas' The Corsican Brothers and The Man in the Iron Mask.
Contents
- Start the revolution without me 1970 official trailer gene wilder donald sutherland hd
- Plot
- Cast
- Awards
- References

Start the revolution without me 1970 official trailer gene wilder donald sutherland hd
Plot

Two sets of identical twins, played by Wilder and Sutherland, are accidentally switched at birth. One set, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, is aristocratic and haughty, while the other set, Charles and Claude Coupé, is poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigues.
Cast

Awards

Start the Revolution Without Me authors Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen were nominated for a WGA award for "Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen" in 1971.




References
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