War and Peace
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision newsreel footage of the actual events. Still, the film falters dramatically, principally because of a lumpy script and King Vidor's surprisingly lustreless direction. In addition, the casting is wildly consistent: for example, while Audrey Hepburn is flawless as Natasha, Henry Fonda is far too "Yankeefied" as the introspective Pierre. Proving too long and unwieldy for most audiences, War and Peace died at the box office; far more successful was the epic, scrupulously faithful 1968 version, filmed in the Soviet Union.
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Grouped Work ID | e6796368-06f4-3c3b-57cd-6d6777a22659 |
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Grouping Title | war and peace |
Grouping Author | 860 |
Grouping Category | movie |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-02-29 23:11:02PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-05-03 02:44:42AM |
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Boland, Bridget
Dantine, Helmut
De Laurentiis, Dino
Ekberg, Anita
Ferrer, Mel
Fonda, Henry
Gassman, Vittorio
Hepburn, Audrey
Homolka, Oscar
Lom, Herbert
Mills, John
Ponti, Carlo
Soldati, Mario
Vidor, King
Vitale, Milly
Dantine, Helmut
De Laurentiis, Dino
Ekberg, Anita
Ferrer, Mel
Fonda, Henry
Gassman, Vittorio
Hepburn, Audrey
Homolka, Oscar
Lom, Herbert
Mills, John
Ponti, Carlo
Soldati, Mario
Vidor, King
Vitale, Milly
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Dantine, Helmut.actor
De Laurentiis, Dino.producer
Ekberg, Anita.actor
Ferrer, Mel.actor
Fonda, Henry.actor
Gassman, Vittorio.actor
Hepburn, Audrey.actor
Homolka, Oscar.actor
Lom, Herbert.actor
Mills, John.actor
Ponti, Carlo.producer
Soldati, Mario.director
Vidor, King.director
Vidor, King.writer
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Dantine, Helmut.actor
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Ekberg, Anita.actor
Ferrer, Mel.actor
Fonda, Henry.actor
Gassman, Vittorio.actor
Hepburn, Audrey.actor
Homolka, Oscar.actor
Lom, Herbert.actor
Mills, John.actor
Ponti, Carlo.producer
Soldati, Mario.director
Vidor, King.director
Vidor, King.writer
Vitale, Milly.actor
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In recreating the the social and personal upheavals attending Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, $6 million was shelled out by coproducers Carlo Ponti, Dino de Laurentiis and Paramount Pictures. Some of the panoramic battle sequences are so expertly handled by second-unit director Mario Soldati that they appear to be Technicolor-and-Vistavision newsreel footage of the actual events. Still, the film falters dramatically, principally because of a lumpy script and King Vidor's surprisingly lustreless direction. In addition, the casting is wildly consistent: for example, while Audrey Hepburn is flawless as Natasha, Henry Fonda is far too "Yankeefied" as the introspective Pierre. Proving too long and unwieldy for most audiences, War and Peace died at the box office; far more successful was the epic, scrupulously faithful 1968 version, filmed in the Soviet Union.
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1956
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Paramount Pictures
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Fiction films
Romance films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
War films
Romance films
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War films
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War and Peace
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War and Peace [electronic resource]
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War and Peace
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hoopla:MWT11039860 | eVideo | Movies | English | Paramount Pictures | 1956 | 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 208 min.)) : sd., col. |