History of the World: Part I (1981)

06/12/1981 (US) • 1h 32m

Comedy

Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!

Overview

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

Top Billed Cast

Mel Brooks

Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI

Dom DeLuise

Emperor Nero

Madeline Kahn

Empress Nympho

Harvey Korman

Count de Monet

Cloris Leachman

Madame Defarge

Ron Carey

Swiftus

Pamela Stephenson

Mademoiselle Rimbaud

Shecky Greene

Marcus Vindictus


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$11,000,000.00

Revenue

$31,672,907.00

Keywords

moses

roman empire

inquisition

french revolution

musical

stone age

satire

anthology

prehistory

cavemen

18th century

louis xvi

peplum

timeline

nero

15th century

spanish inquisition

satirical

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