The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George Pál was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest grossing movies of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. Several famous actors, including Laurence Harvey, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett, are in the film, and it uses a rarely found feature ...
more
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) is a Cinerama film directed by Henry Levin. George Pál was the producer and was also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest grossing movies of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. Several famous actors, including Laurence Harvey, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett, are in the film, and it uses a rarely found feature in filming wherein an overlay of two separate screens was utilized to produce various effects.
The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) and Jacob (Karlheinz Bohm), and is biographical and fantastical at the same time. Both are working to finish a history for a local Duke (Oscar Homolka), though Wilhelm is more interested in collecting fairy tales and often spends their money to hear them from locals. As the film progresses it occasionally presents tales from the Brothers Grimm, such as The Dancing Princess and The...
less
