Overview
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
Cast
- Gene Wilder as Claude / Philippe
- Donald Sutherland as Charles / Pierre
- Hugh Griffith as King Louis
- Jack MacGowran as Jacques
- Billie Whitelaw as Queen Marie
- Victor Spinetti as Duke d'Escargot
- Ewa Aulin as Christina
- Helen Fraser as Mimi
- Rosalind Knight as Helene de Sisi
- Harry Fowler as Marcel