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Overview

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Director:
Bud Yorkin
Writers:
Fred Freeman (written by) and
Lawrence J. Cohen (written by)
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Release Date:
14 August 1970 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy | History more
Plot:
Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Quiet Slapstick comedy more

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Louis, There's a Crowd Downstairs! (USA) (working title)
Two Times Two
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Runtime:
90 min | Spain:98 min (alternate version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
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) | USA:PG

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Trivia:
Gene Wilder chose to do this film over Catch-22 (1970). more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Twentieth century buses visible on a bridge in background of swordfight. more
Quotes:
The Narrator: Paris, France, 1789. Thirty years later, under the reign of Louis XVI, longstanding grievances between aristocrat and peasant were about to boil over. The pot in which these troubles boiled was kindled with the firewood of oppression and injustice and heated by the flames that sucked the air from gasping peasants. Would the pot cool off, would it merely simmer, or would it boil over in the kitchen of France-- to stain the floor of history forever? more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Dallas: Start the Revolution with Me (#4.14)" (1981) more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Quiet Slapstick comedy, 22 July 1999
10/10
Author: anonymous from Boston, Mass.

Start the Revolution Without me is a brilliant comedy that many people just don't have the patience or the attention span for. Many of the jokes are subtle and missed if one is not paying attention to every word. In the film's delivery room scene, a archetypical aristocrat and an overstated filthy peasant ask about the progress of their pregnant wives to which the attendant asks, "Which one's the Duke?" The film thrives on awkward moments and double-entendre. It relies on the viewer to complete much of the humor on their own, and thus is not for the masses which need to be hit on the head with their entertainment. The film does rely heavily on understated sexual themes and much of the humor would be lost on children. Start the Revolution Without Me is a work which fits into the prime of its two stars, Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. Wilder, coming in the period of masterpieces such as The Producers and Willy Wonka. Sutherland, showing a range, playing characters in the film as different from M.A.S.H's Hawkeye Pierce as can be done. The film is funny if you sit down and watch it, start to finish. It takes time to catch many of its subtleties and double-jokes. It may well be a perfect rainy day comedy.

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