The Brothers Karamazov
Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.
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"After watching this film for the first time I can see where Jerome Weideman got the inspiration for the novel that became the basis for the films House Of Strangers and Broken Lance. The Menottis of the first film and the Devereauxs of the second were definitely inspired by The Brothers Karamazov. The feelings for the father are the only thing that unite these four distinctly different brothers. Lee J. Cobb is a hard drinking, hard wenching, two fisted patriarch who is determined to beat everyone else in the game of debauchery. He's getting good competition from son Yul Brynner and it ar..."
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The presence of Philip G. Epstein in the writing credits indicates that this film had been a project long in the works in Hollywood - Epstein had died six years before the film appeared. Director Richard Brooks had wanted to make the film in Russia, something quite impossible, of course, in the darkest days of the Cold War. MGM had insisted very firmly that the film made at their studios in Culver City, and several familiar standing sets from other MGM films appear in the movie. It was a box-office and critical failure, although it has gained in reputation somewhat over the years.
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Drama based on Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky's homonymous novel about the proud Karamazov family in 1870s Russia.