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Start the Revolution Without Me is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Bud Yorkin and 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.
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| Directed by | Bud Yorkin |
| Produced by | Bud Yorkin |
| Written by | Lawrence J. Cohen Fred Freeman |
| Starring | Gene Wilder Donald Sutherland Hugh Griffith Jack MacGowran Billie Whitelaw Orson Welles Victor Spinetti Ewa Aulin |
Production company | Norbud Productions |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Screenplay
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.
- Gene Wilder as Phillipe/Claude
- Donald Sutherland as Pierre/Charles
- Hugh Griffith as King Louis
- Jack MacGowran as Jacques
- Billie Whitelaw as Marie
- Victor Spinetti as Duke d'Escargot
- Ewa Aulin as Princess Christina
- Helen Fraser as Mimi Montage
- Rosalind Knight as Helene de Sisi
- Harry Fowler as Marcel
- Murray Melvin as Blind Man
- Graham Stark as Andre Coupe
- Orson Welles as The Narrator
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