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The Twelve Chairs
Why this pick
Its comic quest has the same anarchic momentum: colourful eccentrics, elaborate deceptions and jokes that keep piling up with exuberant old-fashioned showmanship.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1966 1h 39m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In the city of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero, Pseudolus (Zero Mostel) is "the lyingest, cheatingest, sloppiest slave in all of Rome", whose only wish is to buy his freedom from his master's parents, the henpecked Senex (Michael Hordern) and his dominating wife Domina (Patricia Jessel). When he finds out that his master, Senex's handsome but dim son Hero (Michael Crawford), has fallen in love with Philia (Annette Andre), a beautiful virgin courtesan from the house of Marcus Lycus (Phil Silvers), buyer and seller of beautiful women next door, Pseudolus makes a deal: he will get the girl for Hero in return for his freedom.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Buster Keaton
Erronius
Michael Crawford
Hero
Annette Andre
Phillia
Leon Greene
Captain Miles Gloriosus
Alfie Bass
Gatekeeper
John Bluthal
Roman Chief Guard
Beatrix Lehmann
Domina's Mother
Frank Thornton
Slave driver