The Thirteen Chairs

The Thirteen Chairs original title and Italian release title is a 1969 comedy film based on The Twelve Chairs, a 1928 satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov. It was directed by Nicolas Gessner and Luciano Lucignani, and starred Sharon Tate her last film before her death, Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, and Tim BrookeTaylor.

Mario rushes to England and learns that his inheritance consists of not much only thirteen antique chairs have a certain value. He sells them in order to cover his transportation costs, but soon learns from his aunts Laura last message that inside one of the chairs is a fortune in jewels. He tries to buy back the chairs, but is unsuccessful in doing so. With the help of lovely American antiques dealer Pat Sharon Tate, working in the antiques shop in front of Aunt Lauras house, where he sold the chairs, the two then set out on a bizarre quest to track down the chairs that takes them from London to Paris and to Rome. Along the way, they meet a bunch of equally bizarre characters, including the driver of a furniture moving van named Albert TerryThomas a prostitute named Judy Mylne Demongeot Maurice Orson Welles, the leader of a traveling theater company that stages a poor version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the Italian entrepreneur Carlo Di Seta Vittorio De Sica and his vivacious daughter Stefanella Ottavia Piccolo.The bizarre chase ends in Rome, where the chair containing the money finds its way into a truck and is collected by nuns who auction it off to charity. With nothing much left to do as a result of the failure of his quest, Mario travels back to New York City by ship as Pat sees him off and waves goodbye to him. ........

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