War and Peace (4⧸9) Movie CLIP - The Dance (1956) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Prince Andrei (Mel Ferrer) expresses his interest in Natasha (Audrey Hepburn) at a formal dance.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
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.

CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1956)
Cast: Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn
Director: King Vidor
Producers: Carlo Ponti, Dino De Laurentiis
Screenwriters: Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Bridget Boland, Gian Gaspare Napolitano, Mario Soldati, Ivo Perilli, Leo Tolstoy, King Vidor, Robert Westerby

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