Twelve Plus One (1969) on Netflix
Mario Beretti, a barber in New York, inherits thirteen chairs from an aunt in England and sells them to pay for the journey. Her message says jewels are hidden in one chair.
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Plot summary
Mario Beretti cuts hair in New York City, near a construction site, and his shop draws few customers. Word arrives that his aunt Laura has died in Lavenham, England, and named him her sole heir. He crosses the Atlantic and finds the estate amounts to thirteen old chairs. Mario sells them to the antiques shop across from his aunt's house to cover his costs, then hears her final message: jewels worth a fortune are hidden inside one of the chairs. The dealer Pat, an American, joins his search, and the two travel from London to Paris and on to Rome. They meet Albert, who drives a furniture van, a prostitute named Judy, Maurice, who heads a traveling theater troupe performing Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Italian entrepreneur Carlo Di Seta with his daughter Stefanella.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Twelve Plus One (1969)
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- Tim Brooke-Taylor recalled Ed Pope phoning Orson Welles from the producer’s office at Cinecitta, running through big names Welles did not like until he got to Brooke-Taylor’s own name; Pope, who had no clue who he was, handed him the phone whispering “Get him to do it.” Welles’s first words were “This is a load of crap.”
- Because Sharon Tate was pregnant during filming, the director shot her semi-nude scenes early on and later hid her stomach behind large purses and scarves; biographer Greg King wrote she was paid over $100,000 but that morning sickness left some of her scenes stiff or stilted.
- The film was Tate’s last: she, her unborn son and four others were murdered at her home by followers of Charles Manson, and the film was released posthumously.
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