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The wonderful world of the brothers grimm
The wonderful world of the brothers grimm















It is interesting to note that we see Wilhelm almost apoplectic over the fact that some people have heard the story that it was a farmer and not a huntsman, while others state they were told it was a fisherman. “Tale as old as time, clichés as old as rhyme.” Later the next morning – as he is about to be beheaded for apparently failing to solve the mystery – he shows the King the hidden passageway and reveals to the Princess that he was her masked dancing partner. With a domino mask – also provided by his gypsy friend – the Huntsman joins in on the dance and wins the heart of the princess.

the wonderful world of the brothers grimm

Lucky for the Huntsman, he knows a kindly gypsy woman ( Beulah Bondi) who provides him with a cloak of invisibility, thus allowing him to follow the Princess through a secret passage and smuggle himself aboard her coach, which takes her deep into the countryside where she dances with a caravan of gypsies.

the wonderful world of the brothers grimm

To do so, he must discover how the Princess is wearing out her slippers each and every night – this is apparently driving the King ( Jim Backus) to distraction – but if he fails to uncover the secret to this mystery, he will lose his head. The first fairy tale deals with a young huntsman ( Russ Tamblyn) who wishes to win the hand of the beautiful Princess ( Yvette Mimieux).

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As I stated earlier, the biographical aspect of The Wonderful World of Brothers Grim is about as realistic as the fairy tales themselves, but a movie about court librarians doing endless hours of research wasn’t going to appeal to children – they came to see fantastical tales of far off places, not people doing homework – and fantastical tales is exactly what George Pal gave them. The film’s structure has Jacob and Wilhelm trying to make ends meet while working for The Duke ( Oskar Homolka) – a man eager to have them write a family history that would make him look good in the eyes of the King – and in between these moments of economic strife, we are treated to three fairy tales, that we either see Wilhelm tell his own children or ones he overhears from a kindly old woman. “Jacob, I hope one day to be played by Matt Damon.” It would be fair to say that any historical accuracy this film has – as pertaining to the real Brothers Grimm – is purely accidental. Directed by Henry Kevin – with Pal himself directing the fairy tale sequences – this film gave us a rather whimsical version of how the Grimm Brothers, Wilhelm ( Laurence Harvey) and Jacob ( Karlheinz Böhm), became known far and wide as collectors and purveyors of some of the most beloved fairy tales known to man. Produced by the legendary George Pal – known for such classics as When Worlds Collide and The Time Machine – this esteemed filmmaker took a vacation from the worlds of science fiction and entered the realm of fantasy with The Wonderful World of Brothers Grimm, a movie that worked as both a fairy tale and a biographical picture. Most people alive today are familiar with the Grimm fairy tales through their popular Disney incarnations – Uncle Walt having basically made a decades-long career producing animated classic based on those old tales – but in 1962, MGM studios tackled the subject matter with an interesting “biographical” approach: instead of animated versions of the Grimm’s tales, we got a live action biography of the two brothers, one that worked as framework for three of their lesser known tales i.e.















The wonderful world of the brothers grimm