Jul 14th
Start the Revolution Without Me*
(GB 1969)
Warner Bros/Norbud. 90m.
Mixed-up pairs of identical twins at birth become entangled in the French Revolution.
Lavish spoof with funny moments but many of the jokes are overworked, and the plot steadily takes second place to the stream of gags in anarchic humour typical of its time, e.g. Orson Welles narrates in modern clothes outside Louis XVI's Palace and takes next-to-no part in the rest of the film.
Written by: Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen.
Producer: Norman Lear.
Director: Bud Yorkin.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, High Griffith, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti, Jack MacGowran, Harry Fowler, Ewa Aulin, Helen Fraser, Rosalind Knight, Murray Melvin, Graham Stark.
Photography: Jean Tournier.
Music: John Addison.
Start the Revolution Without Me*
(GB 1969)
Warner Bros/Norbud. 90m.
Mixed-up pairs of identical twins at birth become entangled in the French Revolution.
Lavish spoof with funny moments but many of the jokes are overworked, and the plot steadily takes second place to the stream of gags in anarchic humour typical of its time, e.g. Orson Welles narrates in modern clothes outside Louis XVI's Palace and takes next-to-no part in the rest of the film.
Written by: Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen.
Producer: Norman Lear.
Director: Bud Yorkin.
Starring: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, High Griffith, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti, Jack MacGowran, Harry Fowler, Ewa Aulin, Helen Fraser, Rosalind Knight, Murray Melvin, Graham Stark.
Photography: Jean Tournier.
Music: John Addison.
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