Yul Brynner and William Shatner are Brothers, K?

[radiantfracture]

Okay, so I've discovered--

and you probably already knew this, but it was a genuine revelation to me--

The pulpy cover for The Brothers Karamazov that I posted:




is actually a movie tie-in cover for a 1958 film of the novel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1958_film)

...I had joked about the woman on the cover being Doris Day, and then said "Why is Yul Brynner in this photo?" and then thought "But it really does look like Yul Brynner" and then "well, he was Russian, so,"

and, lo, I Googled to find that this actually IS Yul Brynner. Doris Day is Maria Schell, though.

Brynner plays Dmitri and WILLIAM SHATNER plays Alexey.

Here's a trailer.

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Comments

[asakiyume]

OMG! William. Shatner. played. Alyosha. That. is.

I am dumbfounded. That is hilarious and WEIRD.

[sovay]

is actually a movie tie-in cover for a 1958 film of the novel.

Oh, my God, I missed you posting this cover originally. It is! I've never seen the movie, but we had a tie-in cover copy of the book in the house when I was growing up—a different one, but I have permanent Dostoyevsky associations with Yul Brynner because of it.

I keep forgetting about William Shatner.

[radiantfracture]

Karamazovs... in.... spaaaaace...

[princessofgeeks]

You can't make this stuff up!

[calimac]

And is that narrator Paul Frees?

[twistedchick]

I *think* I saw that on tv once; it was so early in Shatner's career that he was unrecognizable even though it wasn't that many years before Star Trek. He had to be, what, maybe 22 or so?

[radiantfracture]

I know! He looks so narrow.

IMDB has his birthdate as 1931 -- if the film was made the year before release (?) he'd be about 25-26? I kind of want to track down a copy now. Maybe at our Last Video Store Standing.

[twistedchick]

I sort of recall seeing (somewhere?) that Shatner was 31 the first season of Star Trek -- but that can't be so if he was born in 1931. There's a few years off there.

[lb_lee]

Wow. Truly, we live in a magical world of magical things.

[radiantfracture]

I feel like even a few years ago this would have seemed like a genuinely useful sign of a universe built from strange meaningful fractal connections.

Oh well.