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- G1970 · Comedy · 1h 34m
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Brooks' story is based on the Russian classic about a man whose mother confesses, on her deathbed, to having hidden the family fortune in the seat of one of a matched set of 12 chairs. The idea was to hide the jewels from the recently victorious revolution. But, alas, the chairs have been scattered.
Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/10/23 Full Review Liam D One of Oscar Winner Mel Brooks (Frances, The Fly II) most underrated movies with a great lead performance by Oscar Nominee ...
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- Mel Brooks
- G
- Ron Moody
The Twelve Chairs Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times. TOP CRITIC. It's not going for the laughs alone. It has...
Oct 28, 1970 · With Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas. In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mel Brooks
- 1970-10-28
The Twelve Chairs Years after the Russian Revolution in 1917, the former aristocrat Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) is informed by his terminal mother-in- law that she has hidden her jewels in a the upholstery of chair from a set of twelve chairs.
Ilf and Petrov's original novel of "The Twelve Chairs" was a fantastically lighthearted, satirical, and witty piece of work that managed to pack a huge amount of comic and observant material densely into one novel that still flies by when read.
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Sep 5, 2006 · Review scoring. amazing. R.L. Shaffer. Read Review. Summary. Set in 1920's Russia, this much-loved, hilarious Mel Brooks comedy classic is the tale of a former aristocrat (Ron Moody) who is now...