The Brothers Karamazov "New Line" Appointed to defend a drifter

Appointed to defend a drifter who's confessed to killing a small town's leading citizen

Ann Sheridan

A madman's straightjacket binds his torso and arms

Celia fears she knows his secret: he's the man who murdered her husband

"I don't know what the younger generation is coming to

The Brothers Karamazov "New Line" Appointed to defend a drifterDostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given the Hollywood screen treatment in this sumptuous and colorful film. Lee J. Cobb, in an Academy Award nominated role plays Fyodor Karamazov, the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri (Yul Brynner), a callous Russian officer; Ivan (Richard Basehart), the intellectual; pious Alexey (William Shatner in his screen debut); and half brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine