Frank Langella
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Budget. $1.5 million [2] The Twelve Chairs is a 1970 American comedy film directed and written by Mel Brooks, and starring Frank Langella, Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise. The film is one of at least eighteen film adaptations of the Soviet 1928 novel The Twelve Chairs by Ilf and Petrov . Upon its release, The Twelve Chairs was received positively by ...
Oct 28, 1970 · The Twelve Chairs: Directed by Mel Brooks. 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
Fields would have loved this movie. But Brooks is not content with mere cynicism, or with the simple Fields hostility. He goes beyond comedy this time, and he gets all the way to the pathos. And so while "The Producers" was hilarious, yes, "The Twelve Chairs" is a more fully realized work because it uses comedy not just for laughs but as a tool ...
Mel Brooks made a version titled The Twelve Chairs (1970), following the novel more closely, but with a happier ending. Frank Langella plays the part of Ostap Bender with Ron Moody as Vorobyaninov and Dom DeLuise as Father Fyodor.
- Ilf and Petrov
- 1928
Mel Brooks est encore loin du sommet de son art et ça se sent, il tente des choses mais mis à part un exceptionnel Frank Langella, quasiment débutant au cinéma, The Twelve Chairs peut se ...
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- Mel Brooks
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- Ron Moody
Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Before The RevolutionOpening by writer, director and co-star Mel Brooks, Branka Veselinovic as a post-revolutionary Russian aristocrat on her death bed, sending for her foppish son-in-law (Ron Moody) and her nutty orthodox priest (Dom DeLuise), shooting on location in then-Yugoslavia, in The Twelve ...
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Aug 7, 2022 · Theatrical trailer of "The Twelve Chairs" by Mel Brooks. Starring Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andréas Voutsinas, Bridget Brice
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