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　　从古猿开始直立，地球上出现了人类的文明史。石器时代，人们从生活的偶然现象中创造出了艺术样式；摩西的十诫居然是出自失误；在伟大的罗马城中，人们在集市上展示各种新奇发明，而领取失业救济金的脱口政治家卡库斯（梅尔•布鲁克斯 Mel Brooks 饰）从经济人斯威特那里获得了一次进入皇宫表现的机会，卡库斯在集市上结识了被贩卖的才艺黑人乔飞斯以及女皇的女侍梅瑞，在凯撒面前表演脱口政治秀的卡库斯不慎口误，令皇帝勃然大怒，本来要被处死的卡库斯与乔飞斯二人一路杀出宫殿，在梅瑞的帮助下开始了东躲西藏的冒险生涯；随后的西班牙宗教法庭和法国大革命的故事都一一在导演梅尔•布鲁克斯的恶搞中呈现出别样的味道。

　　影片讲述三个大学毕业不久的年轻人一起创立了一家影视公司。公司孤注一掷地拍摄了一部古装武侠电影，却在杀青日当晚弄丢了素材硬盘。制片人、导演、摄影师不得不在七天内重新拍摄一部电影交给投资方。为了完成这个“不可能的任务”， 三人绞尽脑汁、火线补拍，由此引发了一系列令人啼笑皆非的拍摄趣事。

　　畅斯（彼得·塞勒斯 Peter Sellers饰），一位头脑简单的老园丁。他一直生活在华盛顿的一间老房子里，从未离开过。他全部的生活就是看电视，看电视成了他唯一与外界沟通的途径。在长期的累积之下，他的整个思想行为和世界观已完全电视化。然而他的雇主突然去世，畅斯一下子变得无处可去，孤苦无依。面对陌生而又新鲜的世界，他顿时乱了方寸。在一场突如其来的车祸后，畅斯居然成为富有的华盛顿商人伊芙（雪莉·麦克雷恩 Shirley MacLaine饰）和本（茂文·道格拉斯 Melvyn Douglas饰）的座上宾。他凭借在电视上学来的“广博”知识，技惊四座，甚至当上了政客们倚重的智囊。
　　本部享誉70年代末期影坛的政治讽刺喜剧《富贵逼人来》，是笑匠彼得·塞勒斯的最后遗作。本片荣获1980年第52届奥斯卡金像奖最佳男配角并获得最佳男主角提名，入围1980年第33届戛纳电影节主竞赛单元-金棕榈奖。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.