The Twelve Chairs (1970 film)

The Twelve Chairs
VHS cover
Directed byMel Brooks
Screenplay by
  • Mel Brooks
Based onThe Twelve Chairs
by Ilf and Petrov
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDjordje Nikolic
Edited byAlan Heim
Music byJohn Morris
Distributed byUMC (Universal Marion Corporation) Pictures
Release date
  • October 28, 1970 (1970-10-28)
Running time
93 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ "THE TWELVE CHAIRS (U)". British Board of Film Classification. September 29, 1970. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Wakeman, John (1988). World Film Directors, 1945–1985. Vol. 2. The H.W. Wilson Company. pp. 162–7. ISBN 978-0-824-20763-2.