Watching the HBO Mel Brooks documentary...

I was reminded that Brooks remade the best films of Fred Allen and of Jack Benny...not quite as good as recapitulating James Whale, but The Twelve Chairs was at least the second US film based on The Twelve Chairs, after It's In the Bag! (1945) and To Be or Not to Be was even more an obvious revisit. It seemed a likely thing for Brooks to do, in both cases.