Twelve Chairs, The (Full Frame)

VHS, PG, 94 minutes, FOX

Although the plot of "The Twelve Chairs" is wild enough to have been created by Mel Brooks, it's actually based on a Russian story written by two Soviet journalists, Ilya Iif and Yevgenni Petrov, in the 1920's. Set in Russia in 1927, this much-loved, hilarious Mel Brooks comedy classic is the tale of former aristocrat (Ron Moody) who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. When he learns that his dying mother-in-law sewed a fortune of family jewels into one of twelve dining room chairs, he sets off across Russia to find it - with an opportunist (Frank Langella), a priest (Don DeLuise) and his former servant (Mel Brooks) all in equal pursuit.