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Auction History Result 8k045 TWELVE CHAIRS 12 8x10 stills '70 directed by Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Dom DeLuise Date Sold 2/23/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 12 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (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: SUPER IMPORTANT! THIS LOT CONTAINS 12 STILLS, BUT ONLY EIGHT OF THE STILLS ARE PICTURED! THE HIGH BIDDER ON THIS LOT WILL RECEIVE 12 STILLS FROM THIS MOVIE, and NOT just the eight pictured! We realize there is an element of gambling to this, but we made only a small effort to find the best eight stills in these lots, and, if you have any willingness to gamble at all, you may find that you get some great stills that were not pictured! Please do NOT bid on this lot unless you can accept that you are only seeing eight of the stills. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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