Trailer
Assistive Technologies

History of the World: Part I

Runtime
1hr 32mins
Directed by
Mel Brooks
Featuring
Mel Brooks,
Gregory Hines,
Dom DeLuise,
Madeline Kahn,
Cloris Leachman

Showtimes

Wed 4/15
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IN MEL WE TRVST

Orson Welles narrates this lampoon of historical epics by way of Mel Brooks’s brand of Borscht Belt theatrics, giving production designer Harold Michelson a perfect opportunity to provide flamboyant period flair from the Stone Age to the French Revolution—in the film that first showed us how and why “It’s good to be the king.”

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