The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

• 5.8 Fantasy
• 1962-08-07
• 140 minutes mins

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write something entertaining amongst the sea of dry, non-fiction books they write and he sets about collecting oral-tradition fairy tales to put into print. Their life story is countered with reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."

Starring:

Laurence Harvey (Wilhelm Grimm / Cobbler (segment "The Cobbler and the Elves")) Karlheinz Böhm (Jacob Grimm) Claire Bloom (Dorothea Grimm) Walter Slezak (Stossel) Barbara Eden (Greta Heinrich) Oskar Homolka (The Duke ('The Dream')) Arnold Stang (Rumpelstiltskin) Martita Hunt (Anna Richter) Betty Garde (Miss Bettenhausen) Bryan Russell (Friedrich Grimm)

Director:

George Pal Henry Levin

Writer:

David P. Harmon Charles Beaumont William Roberts