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Una Su Tredici (Original title)Thirteen (Working title)12 + 1 (Alternative title)12 Plus 1 (Alternative title)Twelve Plus One (Help search title)
Date: 1969 (Release)

Countries: Italy, France

Director: Nicolas Gessner

Synopsis: Comedy about an unsuccessful New York-Italian emigrant barber, who inherits an aunt's fortune in Sussex: unpaid bills and 13 chairs, which he promptly sells for a ticket back to New York. He finds out later that a fortune is hidden in one of the chairs and runs all over Europe to recover the 13 chairs...

Genre:
Comedy

Subjects:
Chairs, Russian fiction
Releases
Date: 1970Country: United KingdomRelease type: UnreleasedFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Dialogue (dubbed): EnglishDistributor: Crawford Films
Date: 01 May 1970Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Dialogue (dubbed): EnglishDistributor: Avco Embassy Pictures

Credits (26)
Co-director: Luciano Lucignani, ©: General Productions, Production Company: COFCI, Production Company: C.E.F., Executive Producer: Lester A. Sansom, Producer: Edward J. Pope, Producer: Claude Giroux, Production Manager: Mario De Biase, Production Supervisor: Antonio Altoviti, Assistant Director: Michel Lang, Written by: Denis Norden, Written by: Nicolas Gessner, Marc Behm, Adaptation: Marc Behm, Based on the novel `Twelve Chairs' by: Petrov, Ilf, Director of Photography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini, Film Editor: Giancarlo Cappelli, Costumes Designed by: Franco Caretti, Make-up: G. Banchelli, Title (12 + 1): Patricia Gilbert, Additional Music: David Whitaker, Music: Stelvio Cipriani, Dialogue Coach: Roberta Haynes, Studio: Cinecittà
Cast (30)
Sharon Tate (Patricia), Vittorio Gassman (Mario), Orson Welles (Markau), Vittorio De Sica (the commendatore/De Seta), Terry-Thomas (Albert), Mylène Demongeot (Judy), Grégoire Aslan (psychiatrist), Tim Brooke-Taylor (Jackie), John Steiner (Stanley), William Rushton (Bennet), Lionel Jeffries (Randomhouse), Michel Borelli (Rosy), Ottavia Piccolo (Stefanella), Catana Cayetano (Veronique), Claude Berthy (François), Marzio Margine (Pasqualino), Alfred Thomas (Mbama), Antonio Altoviti (Greenwood), Sandro Dori (tax inspector), Gigi Bonos (removal man's mate), Alberto Colzi, Corrado Olmi, Mirella Pamphili, Joe Marinelli, Piero Gerlini, Edda Albertini, Mimmo Poli (De Seta's majordomo), Tom Felleghy, Maurizio Fiorini, Isa Miranda ([originally cast])