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History of the World: Part I

1981
1h 32m
Comedy/History/Musical
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Cast

Mel Brooks (Moses)Gregory Hines (Josephus)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)Sid Caesar (Chief Caveman)Mary-Margaret Humes (Miriam)Orson Welles (Narrator)Rudy De Luca (Prehistoric Man)Leigh French (Prehistoric Woman)Richard Karron (Prehistoric Man)Susette Carroll (Prehistoric Man)Sammy Shore (Prehistoric Man)J.J. Barry (Prehistoric Man)

Director

Mel Brooks

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Synopsis

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

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