Mel Brooks Moses/Comicus/Torquemada/Jacques/Louis XVI Dom DeLuise Julius Caesar 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 Orson Welles Narrator (voice) Spike Milligan Monsieur Rimbaud John Hillerman Rich Man Andrew Sachs (II) Gerard Fiona Richmond Queen Nigel Hawthorne Citizen Official Directed by Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks's full-frontal assault on how we got where we are today has something, wonderfully, to offend everyone- Moses drops five of the original 15 commandments and Brooks, as a waiter at the Last Supper, asks: "Are you all together or is it separate cheques?".
From a sadistically hilarious Spanish Inquisition number to a "Jews-in-space" finale, it's vaudeville at its most vulgar- with broader strokes than Monty Python, but without the smugness.
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