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Auction History Result 7s564 TWELVE CHAIRS pressbook 1970 Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise & Frank Langella! Date Sold 7/21/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) The Twelve Chairs, the 1970 Mel Brooks treasure-hunting-across-post-Revolution-Russia adventure screwball comedy ("A wild and hilarious chase for a fortune in jewels.") starring Ron Moody ("Unforgettable as 'Fagin' in 'Oliver!'"), Dom DeLuise, Frank Langella, Mel Brooks ("as Tikon"), and Andreas Voutsinas. Note that this was a remake of a 1969 Italian movie called "Una su 13". IMDb says that this Italian movie was released in the U.S. in 1970, but we can only find newspaper ads from Canada, many of which have the bad taste to promote this silly comedy as "her last film" (before she was brutally murdered by Charles Manson's followers) and "her smiling eyes haunt us, not her tragic fate". Mel Brooks bought the rights to this Italian movie and he made this American version of it in 1970. Also, note that there were an amazing 25 (at least) different movie and TV adaptations based on this same novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, with the first in 1933. At first, there were 13 chairs, but at some point, they lowered that to 12, and the remaining movie adaptations had 12! Surely this must be close to some sort of record for most adaptations for a non-classic novel! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good to fine, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. Learn More about condition grades 
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