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14 August 1970 (West Germany)
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Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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the art of dead pan comedy by the masters
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gene Wilder | ... | Claude / Philippe | |
| Donald Sutherland | ... | Charles / Pierre | |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | King Louis | |
| Jack MacGowran | ... | Jacques | |
| Billie Whitelaw | ... | Queen Marie | |
| Victor Spinetti | ... | Duke d'Escargot | |
| Ewa Aulin | ... | Christina | |
| Helen Fraser | ... | Mimi | |
| Rosalind Knight | ... | Helene de Sisi | |
| Harry Fowler | ... | Marcel | |
| Murray Melvin | ... | Blind Man | |
| Ken Parry | ... | Dr. Boileau | |
| Maxwell Shaw | ... | Duke de Sisi | |
| Jacques Maury | ... | Lt. Sorel | |
| Graham Stark | ... | Andre Coupe |
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90 min | Spain:98 min (alternate version)
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Color (Technicolor)
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Canada:14+ (Ontario) |
Singapore:PG |
Iceland:L |
USA:Approved (No.22144) |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (video rating) |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Sweden:11 |
USA:M (original rating) |
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The movie was originally intended to be shot in Czechoslovakia, but the Russian invasion of that country in 1968 forced a change in plans.
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Anachronisms: Twentieth century buses visible on a bridge in background of swordfight.
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King Louis XVI:
[King Louis and Marie Antoinette appear at a ball, where everyone is dressed in gowns and suits. The king is dressed in a chicken suit] I thought it was a costume ball!
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Referenced in "Dallas: Start the Revolution with Me (#4.14)" (1981)
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Just thinking of the "bits" in this masterpiece, sends me into hysterics. The dead hawk on Gene Wilder's arm; (before or after M. Python's dead parrot bit?), the "it's a pleasure doing business with you" bit; when they open a dungeon door to release a prisoner who has been chained to a wall for twenty years, and his first words to the jailer is, "That's a nice suit. Did you just buy it?" (It's eighteenth century France). All done in low key, straight faced, English style. It looks like the only advice Bud Yorkin the director gave this great cast was, "Forget this is a comedy. Act like it's a regular Louis VXI historical presentation. It worked like a charm. The Duke d'Escargot is played by Victor Spinetti, one of my favorite comedians, who for some reason did not reach the international fame I think he deserved. I start laughing even before he says something, and you know when he does say something it will be a piece of nonsense that you'll end up believing, because he says it with such sincerity you just gotta believe the guy. And the rest of the cast.Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Billie Whitelaw, Hugh Griffith, Murray Melvin. Even I could be a Fellini with these "heavy hitters".