Start the Revolution without Me with Gene Wilder: DVD Cover

    Start the Revolution without Me Director: Bud Yorkin Cast: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Billie Whitelaw

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    • DVD Release Date: 07/01/2003
    • Original Release: 1970
    • Rating: Rated PG
    • Sales Rank: 2,110

    Viewer Rating: (1 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; Feature-length audio commentary by Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland and director/producer Bud Yorkin; Theatrical trailer; Scene access; Interactive menus; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English, Français & Español

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Welles Welcome; Credits [3:39]
    2. Two Sets of Twins [4:53]
    3. Pillow Plunderers [4:09]
    4. I'll Show You Excitement [2:36]
    5. King's Time Running Out [3:13]
    6. And I Shall Be Queen [4:24]
    7. Blind Man's News [2:33]
    8. Goodbye, Mimi [1:58]
    9. Barging Onto the Barge [5:23]
    10. Greetings From Corsica [4:27]
    11. Think I'm Crazy? [1:39]
    12. Royal Visitor [4:41]
    13. Business or Pleasure? [2:44]
    14. Cock of the Ball [2:52]
    15. Kill Whomever [2:25]
    16. Asylum Arrivals [2:38]
    17. Watch the Mask [2:41]
    18. Bless This Flock [2:28]
    19. Plans for France [3:44]
    20. Asylum Departures [1:40]
    21. Going Quietly [3:30]
    22. Crank Her Up [3:06]
    23. Cluing Louis In [2:51]
    24. Proclamation Commotion [3:17]
    25. Double-Dealers [3:03]
    26. Mixed Doubles [3:28]
    27. Comes the Revolution [3:30]
    28. Secret to Die For [1:55]
    29. Cast List [:44]

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    Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play the dual roles. Happy to be taken for nobles, the pair soon runs to escape the guillotine in the wake of the French Revolution's blood purge of the upper class and royalty. Hugh Griffith play Louis XVI, with Billie Whitelaw as the amorous Marie Antoinette. The pair are chased by the evil Duke d'Escargot (Victor Spinetti). Orson Welles appears at the beginning and the end of the film as the narrator. Wilder and Sutherland encounter a variety of comical situations in their dual roles of peasants and blue-blooded eccentrics. Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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    January 29, 2002: This is one of those movies that you need to see several times to catch all the jokes. I discovered it one day after taking several AP tests and was so exhausted that everything was funny. To my pleasant suprise, when I saw it again, at a time when I was better rested, everything was still pretty hilarious. There are some great lines here that my friend and I love to quote. For instance, ''France has cramps from the tyranny of her own indigestion,'' and ''Later that night, still 1789.'' It's a great satire of all those overly serious history movies. There are so many great scenes, like when Wilder is defending his stuffed, dead falcon, and when the king shows up at a fancy party dressed as a chicken because he ''thought it was a costume ball.'' I consider myself a connoisseur of stupid comedies, and give this one my highest recomendation.

    This review was written about the VHS edition.