Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.
- hidden fortune
- comedy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ron Moody
Ippolit Vorobyaninov
Frank Langella
Ostap Bender
Dom DeLuise
Father Fyodor
Andréas Voutsinas
Nikolai Sestrin
- Diana Coupland — Diana Coupland
- Mel Brooks — Tikon
- David Lander — Engineer Bruns
- Vlada Petrić — Sevitsky
- Elaine Garreau — Claudia Ivanovna
- Robert Bernal — Curator
- Will Stampe — Night Watchman
- Bridget Brice — Young Woman
- Nicholas Smith — Actor in Play
- Rada Đuričin — Actress in Play
- Branka Veselinović — Natasha
- Directed
- Mel Brooks
- Written
- Mel Brooks
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 154 ratings
- Studio
- Crossbow Productions, The Twelve Chairs Company, Universal Marion Corporation (UMC)
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
