The Twelve Chairs G

A wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels.
The Twelve Chairs
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DVD Details

  • Widescreen
  • Rated: G
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 5, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1970
  • Label: 20th Century Fox

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,692
Rating: 1/5 -- Dull
Classic Film and Television
Aug 13, 2005
Rating: C+ -- A hit or miss spoof of Communism saved by zany performances by Brooks and DeLuise. Full Review
FulvueDrive-in.com
Sep 16, 2005
Rating: 4/4 -- It's not going for the laughs alone. It has something to say about honor among thieves, and by the end of the film we can sense a bond between the two main characters that is even, amazingly, human. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jul 2, 2018
Rating: 3/5 -- Hope for the best, expect the worst - and get something in between. Middling Brooks, with flashes of brilliance.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Sep 2, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- Goofy, funny, smoothly enjoyable.
eFilmCritic.com
Nov 29, 2002
Rating: B- -- The premise was so good that I expected the frantic pic to be funnier and not so overwrought. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
May 2, 2010
Rating: 4/5 -- Probably the closest Brooks ever came to making a 'normal' film. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Jul 27, 2006

Description by OLDIES.com:

Although the plot of The Twelve Chairs is wild enough to have been created by Mel Brooks, it's actually based on a Russian story written by two Soviet journalists Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, in the 1920s. Set in Russia in 1927, this much-loved, hilarious Mel Brooks comedy classic is the tale of a former aristocrat (Ron Moody) who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of the twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it - with an opportunist (Frank Langella), a priest (Dom DeLuise), and his former servant (Mel Brooks) all in equal pursuit.

Product Description:

A stylish, frantic fable and one of director Mel Brooks's earliest films, THE TWELVE CHAIRS is a madcap mystery set in revolutionary Russia. An aging ex-nobleman of the czarist regime, Count I.M. Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody), has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. But when both he and the local priest, Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise), find out that a fortune in the count's family jewels is hidden in a chair's upholstery--the chair being one of a set of 12--they each separately return to Moscow to find the hidden fortune. Along the way, the count enlists the aid of a thief (Frank Langella) in the hilarious treasure hunt. Closer in style to THE PRODUCERS than many of Brooks' other spoofs, THE TWELVE CHAIRS is an overlooked comedy gem. DeLuise gives an uproarious performance in which he employs slapstick and physical humor liberally. There is a human side to this film, too, just as there was with Zero Mostel's character, Max Bialystock, in THE PRODUCERS, in the form of Moody's Vorobyaninov. Based on a Russian novel, THE TWELVE CHAIRS marries neurotic humor and cultural dilemmas in the same vein as
classic Woody Allen films in later years.

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  • Sales Rank: 131,314
  • UPC: 024543167372
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