12 Apr 1986
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Top Billed Cast
Julie Debazac Self - Narrator (voice)
Yul Brynner Self - Actor (archive footage)
Charlton Heston Self - Actor (archive footage)
Ingrid Bergman Self - Actress (archive footage)
Doris Kleiner Self - Brynner's 2nd Wife (archive footage)
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Self (archive footage)
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