History of the World Part I (1981) USA
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Director:Mel Brooks
Studio:20th Century Fox
Producer:Mel Brooks
Writer:Mel Brooks
Rating:4
Rated:R
Date Added:2007-03-06
Purchased On:2007-06-03
ASIN:B000G6BLRE
UPC:0024543371625
Price:$14.98
Genre:Satire
Release:2006-05-09
IMDb:0082517
Duration:92
Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, Latin, French
Mel Brooks  ...  (Director)
Mel Brooks  ...  (Writer)
 
Mel Brooks  ...  Moses
Dom DeLuise  ...  Emperor Caeser
Madeline Kahn  ...  Empress Nympho
Harvey Korman  ...  Count de Monet
Cloris Leachman  ...  Madame DeFarge
Ron Carey  ...  Swiftus
Gregory Hines  ...  Josephus
Pamela Stephenson  ...  Mademoiselle Rimbaud
Shecky Greene  ...  Marcus Vindictus
Sid Caesar  ...  Chief Caveman
Mary-Margaret Humes  ...  Miriam
Orson Welles  ...  Narrator (voice)
Rudy De Luca  ...  Primate / Cave dweller
Leigh French  ...  Prehistoric Man
Richard Karron  ...  Prehistoric Man
Comments: IN MEL WE TRVST

Summary: Mel Brooks's 1981, three-part comedy--set in the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, and the French Revolution--is pure guilty pleasure. Narrated by Orson Welles and featuring a lot of famous faces in guest appearances (beyond the official cast), the film opens well with Sid Caesar playing a caveman, then moves along to the unlikely but somehow hilarious juxtaposition of Caesar's soldiers (the other Caesar, not Sid) with pot humor, and ends on a dumb-funny note in the French bloodbath. This is a take-it-or-leave-it movie, and it works best if you're in a take-it-or-leave-it mood. --Tom Keogh