The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Directed by Mel Brooks
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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Mel Brooks ("High Anxiety"/"Blazing Saddles"/"The Twelve Chairs") directs Young Frankenstein as a parody homage to Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and the other 1930's horror genre films from Universal.
All were processed in DeLuxe color, except Blazing Saddles was three-strip dye-transfer Technicolor in its time and this DVD is somewhat close here, while Young Frankenstein is real black and white.�…
Brooks's first features, " The Producers " (1968) and " The Twelve Chairs ," told original stories.
In 1972, Brooks was a Catskills comic-turned-writer-turned-director whose only two films, The Producers and The Twelve Chairs, had not generated promising commercial success.
After a successful stint as a television comedy writer, Brooks made "The Producers" in 1968, a modest success that later became a cult classic, followed by "The Twelve Chairs" in 1970, a funny picture that was largely ignored by the public and critics alike.
Brooks was in a career funk; though he’d won the Oscar for The Producers, that award hadn’t translated to box office, and his follow-up The Twelve Chairs had flopped badly.
Brooks' " The Twelve Chairs ," not as funny, still had such great scenes as Brooks himself as an obsequious serf clinging to his master's leg.