The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Twelve Chairs on Sunday, May 6, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
The Twelve Chairs
Movie Information
In Brief: The Twelve Chairs — based on a 1928 Russian novel — had seen service quite a few times when Mel Brooks made his version of it in 1970, the most famous being the 1945 Fred Allen film It’s in the Bag. Oddly, the Brooks version is a lot tamer than the Fred Allen version (one of the oddest films of the 1940s), and, in fact, is probably the closest Brooks ever came to making a “normal” film. That may also be why it’s largely ignored today — sandwiched between the classic The Producers and the brazenly outrageous Blazing Saddles. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on July 6, 2006.
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| Genre: | Comedy |
| Director: | Mel Brooks |
| Starring: | Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise, Andreas Voutsinas, Diana Coupland |
| Rated: | PG |
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