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My Easy Marketplace - The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
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Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb, Albert Salmi
Directed By: Richard Brooks
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301967716
Format: Color
ISBN: 6301967712
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 145
Studio: MGM (Warner)
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Summary: Classic movie but not available on DVD
Comment: I saw this movie many years ago when I was little and liked it right away. It's a classic and I've been searching for a good German and English DVD for years but I found out it's obviously not available on DVD yet which I personally do think is a pity.
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Summary: Marilyn Monroe wanted to play GRUSHENKA in this movie, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
Comment: This was the movie for which Marilyn Monroe wanted desperately
the role of Grushenka, the sexy girl in the movie. She wanted
this role to prove her acting ability. But it was not to happen.
Well, maybe it was for the better ...since she filmed in 1958
the role of Sugar Kane Kowalcyk, in SOME LIKE IT HOT.
But one wonders what Grushenka would have been like played by
Marilyn Monroe, seducing Lee J. Cobb and Yul Brynner.
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Summary: Underrated.
Comment: It practically goes without saying that this Hollywood production is inadequate as an adaptation of a monumental novel. On the other hand, even when judged as an adaptation, "Brothers Karamazov" strikes me as superior to efforts to film similar weighty Russian novels such as "War and Peace" and "Dr. Zhivago." The elder Karamazov (Lee J. Cobb) and his four sons, including Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, and William Shattner, are so sharply realized they have remained vivid in my memory for over four decades. The same goes for Maria Schell (whose alluring, enigmatic magnetism must have had the same effect on me as Garbo's persona is said to have had on audiences in the '30's) and Claire Bloom, the two women vying for Brynner's affections. Finally, credit the evocative score of Bronislaw Kaper ("On Green Dolphin Street") and the efficient yet imaginative direction of Richard Brooks (responsible for the equally underrated "Looking for Mr. Goodbar").
Were it not for this movie, I would never have nursed a life-long crush on Maria Schell (the vital and resonant Grushenka) or become devoted to Dostoesky's fiction. Worse, I might never have met the Grand Inquisitor and become engaged in a theological quest that continues unabated.
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Summary: Love, Greed and Everthing You'd Want!
Comment: Yul Brynner was a great actor and this movie shows a more sensitive side of his charactor than his cowboy flicks. It also contemplates the issues of God, conscience, good and evil. I didn't read the book,I'm judging this movie on it's own merit. It is one of my favorite "old movies", you see multi-dimensional sides of the charactors as they deal with love, greed,family conflicts and jealousies. I think the actors play their parts well and you can relate to why the charactors respond in their ways to each other. I don't think Yul got as much acclaim as an actor and leading man as was deserved. He was the first man to make bald, sexy!
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Summary: The Brothers Whats?..av
Comment: This movie doesn't go along with the book, but what movie about a book goes along with it? This movie is your typical movie about a book and kinda twisting the books details. But it is pretty funny.
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