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Title: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
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Wilhelm Grimm /
The Cobbler ('The Cobbler and the Elves')
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Karlheinz Böhm | ... |
Jacob Grimm
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| Claire Bloom | ... |
Dorothea Grimm
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Walter Slezak | ... |
Stossel
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| Barbara Eden | ... |
Greta Heinrich
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Oskar Homolka | ... |
The Duke
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Martita Hunt | ... |
Anna Richter (Story Teller)
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Betty Garde | ... |
Miss Bettenhausen
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Bryan Russell | ... |
Freidrich Grimm
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Gruber
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Tammy Marihugh | ... |
Pauline Grimm
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Cheerio Meredith | ... |
Mrs. Von Dittersdorf
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Walter Rilla | ... |
Priest
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| Yvette Mimieux | ... |
The Princess ('The Dancing Princess')
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The fictionalized lives of the story-telling Grimm brothers are brought to life in this all-star fantasy film. In the early nineteenth century, the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are commissioned to write a family history for a local Duke. Reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess", "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone". Written by alfiehitchie
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The First Dramatic Film in Fabulous CINERAMA See more »Parents Guide:
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21 August 1963 (Denmark) See more »Also Known As:
El maravilloso mundo de los hermanos Grimm See more »Company Credits
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Jacob Grimm: [to Wilhelm] Just tell them I'm your brother.
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Rumors that 'Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm' could never be "restored" because the original 3-panel Cinerama camera negatives were heavily water damaged are untrue. Sources close to Warner Brothers and Cinerama Inc, report there is actually very minimal water damage to one edge of one panel in only some reels, and the Technicolor color separation prints are intact for the entire film. Therefore if any of the water damage actually would show on screen or video, that footage could be replaced with new negative made from the Technicolor separations. 3 color separation reels for each of the 3 Cinerama panels means the replacement process would be costly, but not impossible. See more »Goofs
In the scene where the princess is leaving the castle to dance , it clearly begins during the night, but when she steps outside and walks to the carriage it is daytime, and when she arrives at her destination, it is yet again night. See more »Quotes
Children: [chanting over and over] We want a story! We want a story! We want a story! We want a story!Jacob Grimm: [to Wilhelm] Just tell them I'm your brother.
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This is a well made entertaining little movie, told in a wonderful fairytale kind of way and with a great atmosphere, that makes you feel like a child again.
This movie had all the potential to become a real great and classic children movie but unfortunately the movie makes some bad choices. The movie can be seen as 4 in one. It features 3 told fairy tales and then there is the storyline regarding the brothers Grimm themselves. The whole story of the brother Grimm is perhaps not the most interesting told one (especially not for children) and its not as wonderful and fairytale like as the actual fairy tales told in this movie. And the brothers Grimm have written some of the most marvelous and best known fairy tales but yet this movie decides to use some lesser known and less great fairy tales ('The Dancing Princess', 'The Cobbler and the Elves' and 'The Singing Bone'). In my opinion it makes the movie a bit of a missed opportunity. It's not a bad movie now but the whole movie gave the feeling it all could had been more entertaining, humorous filled and a bit shorter. The movie had easily could and also should had ended 15 minutes earlier. The movie now needlessly goes on for too long.
The fairy tales are definitely the best told parts of the movie. They flow well, have a fun feeling and atmosphere all over it and all makes you forget your worries for a while. It's kept all perfectly childish and it ensures that it never ever becomes too scary for the young ones.
The movie is filled with some wonderful and lovable characters and they're being played by some good actors. Laurence Harvey and Karlheinz Böhm aren't really believable as brothers, mostly because of their looks and very different accent of course but they're still of course good actors. Some supporting roles are there for Terry-Thomas, Buddy Hackett and Billy Barty among others.
The movie was made filmed in 3-camera Cinerama. Cinerama is the trademarked name for a widescreen process which works by simultaneously projecting images from three synchronized 35 mm projectors onto a huge, deeply-curved screen. So a technique that works only in cinemas. On the small screen it just doesn't look good and it looks like the images on screen are cut in 3 parts but back then movies just weren't made for home release of course.
The movie is good looking. Deliberately campy with its fairytale sequences and good and realistic in its 'real world' sequences. The sets are all nice (Oscar-nom) and so are the costumes (Oscar-win). The stop-motion effects in the movie are all fair looking but it's nothing too impressive really. Wasn't Ray Harryhausen available for this movie?
Good entertainment, for the whole family.
7/10
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