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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1970 DVD Release: 07/01/2003 Format: DVD - Soft-Matted WSE for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 16 Genres: Comedy, Farce

Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play the dual roles. Happy to be taken for nobles, the pair soon runs to escape the guillotine in the wake of the French Revolution's blood purge of the upper class and royalty. Hugh Griffith play Louis XVI, with Billie Whitelaw as the amorous Marie Antoinette. The pair are chased by the evil Duke d'Escargot (Victor Spinetti). Orson Welles appears at the beginning and the end of the film as the narrator. Wilder and Sutherland encounter a variety of comical situations in their dual roles of peasants and blue-blooded eccentrics. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Gene Wilder - Claude/Philippe
Donald Sutherland - Charles
Donald Sutherland - Pierre
Hugh Griffith - Louis XVI
Billie Whitelaw - Marie Antoinette

This early-'70s comedy of errors gets a basic DVD presentation with this handsome-if-spartan package. Aside from its widescreen transfer - preserving the film's theatrical aspect ratio - the disc provides the necessary menus for scene access. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide