The Brothers Karamazov

Director Richard Brooks brings in Dostoyevsky characters, Richard Basehart as Ivan, pestered by Smerdyakov (Albert Salmi) as he greets his brother's bride Katya (Claire Bloom), then Maria Schell as Grushenka, accompanying evil dad Fyodor (Lee J. Cobb), in The Brothers Karamazov, 1958.

Military man Dmitri (Yul Brynner) has not yet met tavern owner and seductress Grushenka (Maria Schell), newly engaged to his evil father, whom he means to confront about why she bought his debts, in Richard Brooks' treatment of the Dostoyevsky novel, The Brothers Karamazov, 1958.

Father Fyodor (Lee J. Cobb) is busy debauching when novitiate son Alexey (William Shatner) drops by to seek funds for his brother, in Richard Brooks' brave attempt to film Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, 1958.

Pious Alexey (William Shatner) has just delivered funds to soldier Dmitri (Yul Brynner) from their father, when Katya (Claire Bloom) arrives, hoping to settle a debt owed by her father, his commanding officer, in Richard Brooks' 1958 treatment of Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.

Music by Bronislau Kaper, Maria Schell lusty as Grushenka, and Yul Brynner as Dmitri, succumbing to a family flaw, in Richard Brooks' version of the Dostoyevsky novel, The Brothers Karamazov, 1958.