Start the Revolution Without Me
Gene Wilder... wilder than ever!
6.0(46) 1970-02-04 90 minComedyHistory
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
DirectorBud Yorkin
WriterFred Freeman
WriterLawrence J. Cohen
Original Music ComposerJohn Addison
ProducerBud Yorkin
Cast & characters
Gene Wilder
as Claude / Philippe
Donald Sutherland
as Charles / Pierre
Hugh Griffith
as King Louis
Jack MacGowran
as Jacques
Billie Whitelaw
as Queen Marie
Victor Spinetti
as Duke d'Escargot
Ewa Aulin
as Christina
Helen Fraser
as Mimi
Rosalind Knight
as Helene de Sisi
Harry Fowler
as Marcel
Murray Melvin
as Blind Man
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Ken Parry
as Dr. Boileau
Orson Welles
as The Narrator
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Maxwell Shaw
as Duke de Sisi
Jacques Maury
as Lt. Sorel
Graham Stark
as Andre Coupe
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Barry Lowe
as The Sergeant
George A. Cooper
as Dr. Duval
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Michael Rothwell
as Paul Duval
Denise Coffey
as Anne Duval
