Word: fyodor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crime and Punishment (adapted by Victor Trivas & Georg Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches...
...telescoping Fyodor Dostoyevsky's prodigious novel to cinema size, the producers naturally selected the moments where the action moved most quickly- Dmitri Karamazov's farewell to his fiancee, the murder of his father, for which he is later arrested, his affair with Gruschenka which reaches its climax in a debauch at a back-country roadhouse. Before the Manhattan premiere, the U. S. subsidiary of Tobis offered prizes for a 300-word synopsis of The Brothers Karamazov. The melodrama of Karamazov, for a German spectator, is sound and exciting and far more valuable than the apologetic realism...
...unbounded faith in the literary excellence of their novels, and a sneaking supposition that they are not too widely read in this country. Although it is neither new nor meant for light skimming, as a last choice and without further remarks he presents. "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky...