Does anyone remember "I thought it was a costume ball"....??!


Question: ...and the king was wearing a chicken suit; it's a line from a movie in the 70's probably. I can't for the life of me now remember the title of the movie or who was in it. It was too funny!! My sister's and I still look at each other and say "I thought it was a costume ball" out of the blue and then crack up.


Answers: ...and the king was wearing a chicken suit; it's a line from a movie in the 70's probably. I can't for the life of me now remember the title of the movie or who was in it. It was too funny!! My sister's and I still look at each other and say "I thought it was a costume ball" out of the blue and then crack up.

Yes, I do recall the film, which was released in 1970; my guess was correct! Isn't Donald Sutherland in it, too? I'll have to refresh my memory since it's been a very long time since I've seen it.

IMDB summary:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic; the other, poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", Dumas' "The Corsican Brothers", etc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066402/

Aha! It DOES star Donald Sutherland, so maybe my mind isn't as muddled today as I feared. Also in the cast are Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw and Victor Spinetti, and Murray Melvin, with narration by Orson Welles! That's very impressive.

I haven't seen it listed anywhere for a very long time, but it would be fun to watch it again. Here's your quotation:
[King Louis and Marie Antoinette appear at a ball, where everyone is dressed in gowns and suits. The king is dressed in a chicken suit.]
"I thought it was a costume ball!"~King Louis XVI

MystMoon has it right except for one little detail. Orson Welles didn't narrate Start the Revolution Without Me, he narrated Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I, which also gives a satirical nod to the French Revolution. Only the line from that one is: "It's good to be the King!"



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