Mel Brooks on TCM

[Addison D.]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 3:11pm

TCM is celebrating Mel Brooks' Lifetime Achievement Award from AFI tonight with a variety of programming.

I want to put a word in for 'The 12 Chairs'--which is showing at 9:30 EST--a Brooks film from 1970 that consistently evokes blank stares of non-recognition when I mention it--even from folks typically more savvy about film history than I.

It is not madcap, but it IS very funny (I think), and it features wonderful performances by Dom DeLouise and (a young and very beautiful) Frank Langella.




Link to TCM

Updated On: 7/24/13 at 03:11 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 4:15pm

I LOVE The Twelve Chairs. I remember my dad making me watch it. Wonderful. Thanks for the heads up!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/24/13 at 5:06pm

I LOVE the Twelve Chairs! For some reason, they showed it to us in high school- I have no idea why. Was it some teacher's idea it would educate us on the Russian Revolution?