Robert Osborne Intro - The Twelve Chairs (1970)

Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Cousin Peter From Kiev

Dimwit servant Tikon (writer and director Mel Brooks), con artist Bender (Frank Langella) and greedy heir Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) considering how to get back his mother-in-law's hidden jewels, and meeting Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise), in post-revolutionary Russia, in The Twelve Chairs, 1970.

Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) He Hardly Ever Beat Us

Russia, 1927, Bender (Frank Langella), just introduced as a kindly con-man, meets the writer and director Mel Brooks, playing the wistful ex-servant Tikon, in The Twelve Chairs, 1970, co-starring Ron Moody and Dom DeLuise.

Twelve Chairs, The (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Before The Revolution

Opening by writer, director and co-star Mel Brooks, Branka Veselinovic as a post-revolutionary Russian aristocrat on her death bed, sending for her foppish son-in-law (Ron Moody) and her nutty orthodox priest (Dom DeLuise), shooting on location in then-Yugoslavia, in The Twelve Chairs, 1970.