History of the World: Part I
Top 10 Billed Cast
Moses / Comicus / Torquemada / Jacques / King Louis XVI
Emperor Nero
Empress Nympho
Count de Monet
Madame Defarge
Swiftus
Josephus
Mademoiselle Rimbaud
Marcus Vindictus
Chief Caveman
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