History of the World: Part I
“Ten million years in the making. The truth, the whole truth, and everything, but the truth!”
1981•R•1h 32m•6.7•Released
Comedy
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Director
Mel Brooks
Writer
Mel Brooks
Budget
$10M
Revenue
$32M
Languages
French, Latin, English
Studio
Brooksfilms
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
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
Prehistoric Man / Captain Mucus - The Roman Empire
Leigh French
Prehistoric Woman
Richard Karron
Prehistoric Man
Production
Company
Brooksfilms
Company
20th Century Fox
Producer
Mel Brooks
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