Word: karamazov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plays now under consideration for subsequent production are Antony and Cleopatra, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Great God Brown. Wolfson said that he has "leading" actors in mind for each of them...
Those moviegoers who came to know and love Yul Brynner as the King of Siam in the film The King and I will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children...
...short, he is not the passionate Dmitri Karamazov whom Dostoevsky envisioned--the enormously complicated sensualist who could cry out, "When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude and pride myself upon it. . . . Though I may be following the devil I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee...
...movie and finds God and the true faith on the witness stand, when brought to testify against his brother: he is not the man who could have composed the masterful "Grand Inquisitor" or struggled with the devil himself near the close of the novel. The precariously saintly Alexey Karamazov is transformed into a sort of religious straight man, whose feeble pietisms and meaningful stares represent the religious instruction of the movie, and the idiot Smerdyakov becomes a shrewd, calculating, vengeful spirit who falls just a trifle short of being the film's dominant figure...
Only Lee J. Cobb as old Fyodor Karamazov manages to do justice to his role, and he completely steals the show. From the opening moments of the film where he is seen tickling the feet of a gypsy girl to his unforgettable scene with Father Zossima, he is nearly perfect...