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History of the World: Part I (1981)

R92 minComedy

6.8 / 10

806 votes

Budget: $11MRevenue: $32M

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

Directed by Mel Brooks

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

Gregory Hines

Josephus

Pamela Stephenson

Mademoiselle Rimbaud

Shecky Greene

Marcus Vindictus

Sid Caesar

Chief Caveman