The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
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Screenplay David P. Harmon Country United StatesGermany | 6.4/10 Genre Animation, Adventure, Biography Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 7, 1962 (1962-08-07) Writer David P. Harmon (screenplay), Charles Beaumont (screenplay), William Roberts (screenplay), David P. Harmon (story), Hermann Gerstner (based on "Die Bruder Grimm") Cast (Wilhelm Grimm), (Jacob Grimm), (Dorothea Grimm), (Stossel), (Greta Heinrich), Oskar Homolka (The Duke)Similar movies Interstellar , Titanic , Independence Day , Around the World in Eighty Days , Kingdom of Heaven , Pompeii Tagline WONDERFUL THRILLS! ADVENTURE! ROMANCE! |
The wonderful world of the brothers grimm 1962 cinerama trailer
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm is a 1962 American film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The latter was the producer and also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest-grossing films of 1962. It won one Oscar and was nominated for three additional Academy Awards. Several prominent actors — including Laurence Harvey, Karlheinz Böhm, Jim Backus, Barbara Eden, and Buddy Hackett — are in the film.
Contents
- The wonderful world of the brothers grimm 1962 cinerama trailer
- The wonderful world of the brothers grimm trailer 1962
- Plot
- Cast
- Box office performance
- Accolades
- Cinerama
- Comic book adaption
- References

It was filmed in the Cinerama process, which was photographed in an arc with three lenses, on a camera that produced three strips of film. Three projectors, in the back and sides of the theatre, produced a panoramic image on a screen that curved 146 degrees around the front of the audience.

The wonderful world of the brothers grimm trailer 1962
Plot

The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm (Laurence Harvey) and Jacob (Karlheinz Böhm), and is biographical and fantastical at the same time. They 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. Tales such as "The Dancing Princess" and "The Cobbler and the Elves" are integrated into the main plot. One of the tales is told as an experiment to three children in a book store to see if publishing a collection of fairytales has any merit. Another tale, "The Singing Bone", is told by an old woman (Martita Hunt) in the forest who tells stories to children, while the uninvited Wilhelm secretly listens through an open window. The culmination of this tale involves a jeweled dragon and features the most involved usage of the film's special effects.

Wilhelm loses the manuscript of the Duke's family history while writing down this third story - he is supposed to be collecting additional information for the family history - and the brothers cannot meet their deadline. They are required to pay their rent, which was waived while they worked. As a result of wading through a stream in an effort to retrieve the manuscript (which fell into the water after his briefcase broke open), Wilhelm becomes critically ill with potentially fatal pneumonia. He dreams that at night various fairytale characters come to him, begging him to name them before he dies. In the dream, Russ Tamblyn reprises his role as Tom Thumb from the 1958 film. His fever breaks and Wilhelm recovers completely, continuing his own work while his brother publishes regular books including a history of German grammar and a book on law. Jacob, shaken by his brother's experience, begins to collaborate on the fairy tales with Wilhelm.

They are ultimately invited to receive honorary membership at the Berlin Royal Academy, which makes no mention of the tales in their invitation. Jacob prepares to make a speech deliberately insulting the Academy for snubbing Wilhelm. As their train pulls into the station, hordes of children arrive, chanting, "We want a story!" Wilhelm begins, "Once upon a time, there were two brothers." The children cheer, and the film ends with a caption card that reads "…and they lived happily ever after."
Cast

Box office performance

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm grossed $8,920,615 at the box office, earning $6.5 million in US theatrical rentals. It was the 14th highest-grossing film of 1962.
Accolades
The film won an Academy Award and was nominated for three more:
Cinerama
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm was produced and exhibited in the original 3-panel Cinerama widescreen process. It was the first Cinerama feature that attempted to tell a cohesive story, unlike previous productions, which had all been travelogues. It was followed a few months later by a second such film, How the West Was Won, after which single-lens Cinerama was used for narrative films.
Comic book adaption
References
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm WikipediaThe Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm IMDb The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm themoviedb.org