War And Peace (1956) - (Original Trailer)

War And Peace (1956) - Marching Away To Fight

Opening scene, King Vidor directing at Cinecittà in Rome, in the Dino De Laurentis/Carlo Ponti production for Paramount, we meet Henry Fonda as an unusually dashing Pierre, with his friends the Rostovs, Barry Jones as Count Ilya, Audrey Hepburn as Natasha, in War And Peace, 1956.

War And Peace (1956) - He Almost Never Smiles

At the country home of the Rostov’s, friend Pierre (Henry Fonda) urges mourning Prince Andrei (Mel Ferrer) to move past his grief, though he resists, then he overhears Natasha (Audrey Hepburn), speaking about him, in the Paramount 1956 treatment of Tolstoy’s War And Peace.

War And Peace (1956) - I'll Do It For Nothing

At the Moscow home of Dolokhov (Helmut Dantine), in a scene modified from Tolstoy, betting Anatol (Vittorio Gassman) he can complete the stunt, to be followed by Pierre (Henry Fonda), until Prince Andrei (Mel Ferrer) intervenes, in King Vidor’s Italian-made Paramount production, War And Peace, 1956.