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Mel Brooks's 1970 comedy (his second work as a film director) is based on an old Russian folktale, and was first filmed in Yugoslavia in 1927. The story concerns an old woman who reveals on her deathbed that she has hidden jewels inside one of 12 chairs that were formerly in her home but are now scattered. Ron Moody plays the poor Russian nobleman seeking them, and Dom DeLuise is his rival. After Brooks's wild and even controversial first film, The Producers, The Twelve Chairs seems relatively tame; but it is still a funny and slightly exotic work owing to its director's longtime interest in classic cinema. --Tom Keogh
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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 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), priest (Dom DeLuise) and his former servant (Mel Brooks) all in equal pursuit.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
By far my favorite Mel Brooks movie. Highly reccommended! I found this in a friends parents movie cabinet, lonely and unwatched. I ended up keeping it.
The comedy is a bit more subtle than many of Mel's movies.
The comedy is a bit more subtle than many of Mel's movies.
Ostap Bender, the main character is a sexy con man, best liar in the world. Mel Brooks plays a former slave who misses the good old days when he master "hardly ever beat us." There's really not much I can say, except-WATCH THIS MOVIE!!!!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A. DiMauro
Format:DVD
I have been a fan of Mel Brooks for a while, all this time considering Young Frankenstein as his all time best...now I have to rethink that! I discovered this movie a couple months ago, and now in my book it rates up there with Young Frankenstein as the best Mel Brooks movie out there. Why doesn't it get the publicity of his other films? It is a classic! The performances in the movie are great, I couldn't stop laughing! I wish that Mel Brooks would also make a movie of The Golden Calf, the sequel to this story.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Format:VHS Tape
This is one of the very best movies ever made. It holds up over time and is fine for all audiences. Great dialogue, tremendous sight gags and just general genius brings this movie off of the screen and into your heart forever.
Mel Brooks has made many funny movies but this one is perhaps his least known but maybe, just maybe his funniest movie of all.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a bad movie.
I am Russian and I've read a book "12 chairs" and watched Russian movie. Mell Brooks's movie did not deliver the idea of the book but it was still fun to watch because Brooks... Read more
Published on Feb 6 2011 by Svetlana Saitova
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of Brooks's best
For my money, the best Mel Brooks movies are those in which he appears the least or not at all. It's not that I don't think that he isn't a brilliant comedic actor: he is. Read more
Published on April 17 2004 by Rocco Dormarunno
5.0 out of 5 stars
Overlooked classic!
I didn't even know this movie existed until I saw that scene in "Spaceballs" when that one guy is looking for the cassette and he passes "Twelve Chairs". Read more
Published on Mar 31 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic
This funny production of post revolution Russia depict in a very humoristic way the changes (or lack of thereof) in Czarist Russia turning into the Soviet Union in the early... Read more
Published on Oct 6 2003 by fitnspc4@aol.com
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Mel Brooks comedy definitely worth your time!
The Twelve Chairs doesn't have as many belly-laughs as The Producers, but it is witty and quite entertaining, and is a worthy runner-up to that earlier classic. Read more
Published on Sep 3 2003 by Benbogali
3.0 out of 5 stars
Tiresome
Several reviews I've read about The Twelve Chairs claim that it is an undeservedly neglected Brooks' masterpiece. Since I've enjoyed other films by the wacky Mr. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2002 by Hoc Stercus
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny, Funny, Funny
This one has everything(short list)
Spoiled rich brat
Con Man
Renegade Priest
Spoiled rich brat
Con Man
Renegade Priest
All of these combine for a hilarious movie which is basically a satire of life under... Read more
Published on May 3 2002 by General Pete
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great overlooked comedy
I first saw this film when I was a Russian major in college in the 70s. It's based on the 1920s novel "Dvenadtsat' stul'ev" by the Russian-Jewish writing team of Ilya Ilf... Read more
Published on Dec 12 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simple Selfishness and Soviet Satire
This is the best Mel Brooks' film ever, and I've seen 'em all! Okay, I'm a Russian Revolution buff. Read more
Published on Aug 5 2001 by Kathy
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh God....you're so strict!
You have to see this overlooked Mel Brooks comedy for one reason: Dom DeLuise's performance as the priest gone totally crazed with avarice. He is simply hysterical. Read more
Published on Mar 31 2001 by Archmaker
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