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Based On Novel Or Book | Cossack
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Best Music Score Substantially Original | 1963
Best Original Score | 1963
Best Archival ReRecording of an Existing Score | 2012
Budget 7,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 4,000,000 USD
According to director J. Lee Thompson, in an interview in Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King (1995), there was a misunderstanding with the hundreds of Argentine gauchos playing horsemen . They were told that horsemen who fell off their horse during an attack scene would be paid extra--but only those who were directed to do so. When the scene was shot, two-thirds of them fell off their horses and expected the extra pay. Upon being told they were not going to be paid extra, they threatened to strike. Yul Brynner then took steak dinners out to their encampment that evening and spent hours entertaining them. Impressed by this, the gauchos returned to work the next day.
Yul Brynner wanted to capture the essence of Nikolay Gogol's novel in the film. By the time it reached the screen, it was dismissed as just another routine action picture in Cossack clothing--the very thing Brynner had hoped to avoid. According to his son Rock, his father never again invested much, if any, of himself in his remaining screen work.
Franz Waxman's Oscar-nominated score was regarded by fellow composer Bernard Herrmann as one of the finest film scores ever written.
Tony Curtis plays Yul Brynner's son, but Curtis was only five years younger than Brynner in real life. Curtis is also a "college student", at the age of 37, in this movie.
Yul Brynner was so committed to his part, he wanted the film to be shot in sequence to make his performance more true. This did not happen.
"Taras: My son, why? Why? Andrei Bulba: I did what I had to do. Taras: From the day I plunged you in the river to give you life, I loved you as I loved the steppes. You were my pride! I gave you life. It is on me to take it away from you."
"Taras: There's only ONE WAY to keep faith with a Pole. Put your faith in your sword and the sword in the Pole."
