War and Peace (7/9) Movie CLIP - The Invasion (1956) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Pierre (Henry Fonda) gets involved in a violent battle between the Russians and the French.

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: Henry Fonda
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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[fettfan]

Music? Epic. Camera work? Top notch. This video should be a few minutes longer because this whole battle sequence is awesome.

[deriter]

Trouble is now when I watch these scenes I keep expecting to see Woody Allen flying over the battlefield after being shot out of a cannon,

[sffgvcb]

The 8 hour long 1966 soviet union version of this film is far better. They have over 300, 000 red army soldier extras to do the battle scenes, its filmed on location at the Russian imperial palace in some scenes, Russian aristocrats and the tsar speak French, napoleon and his soldiers speak french, they actually tried with costumes.

[steveweinstein]

Where does a film production get so many well-trained horses that can even fall and roll over on cue without hurting themselves??

[ramananrampragash]

The French cavalry that start the charge at the beginning of this clip are Empress dragoons. They were an elite cavalry unit.

[cl]

Deadly charge!!! Napolean had the best calvary.

[rwbrown]

Got enough French flags? I don't think the battle was fought on a golf course.

[Aces]

Of a name never before held by a French king comes a fearful thunderbolt; Russia, Italy, Spain, Austria, France and England trembled

[theopiron]

im sad about the horses, i think they were really wounded

[hellakewl]

Many of the scenes are also not congrunet with the book... that's all right, but they deviate too much sometimes.

[rjcoolin]

Did real horses get hurt in the making of this movie?

[Scientist]

The Battle of Borodino. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[robertocamilo]

Assisti esse filme ontem dia: 29/12/2017 no Cine Cult, as 22:30 hs muito bom mesmo!

[eltonjohnson]

I thought it was bad tactics for cavalry to charge artillery. That's the big discussion over the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War. Maybe cavalry tactics changed from the Napoleonic wars to the Crimea war?

[cristinawilligs]

king vidor was a pioneer but being a pioneer is a different bussiness than making a good movie

[timkilpatrick]

They don't, they probably killed half a hundred horses making this movie.

[michaelhenry]

2:00 this is What happens when you dont run to the russian square’s like in waterloo

[rolmaguiland]

Welll🎉 done for this era legionery work❤❤❤❤

[Demille]

This film could have been a masterpiece. Instead it's incredibly uninvolving and flat.

[mikexxxxxxxx]

war is heaven peace is hell or so they say..or is it the other way round..MM