War and Peace (1956) (1956)

Natasha Rostov: Did you notice he almost never smiles? While I was singing, I turned around suddenly and caught him looking at me and he was smiling then. And I felt - but it's almost impossible to describe - I felt as if someone had given me the most enormous, beautiful present.

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Natasha Rostov: [to Pierre] You're like this house. You suffer, you show your wounds, but you stand.

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Natasha Rostov: When I finally say I love you to any man and really mean it, it will be like a defeated general who's lost all his troops, surrendering and handing his sword to the enemy.

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King Vidor directed the huge Battle of Borodino sequence himself rather than leave it to a second unit director as was the custom.
In the scene where the Rostovs invite Prince Andrei to go hunting with them, Jeremy Brett is the only actor never on a mechanical horse: in all his shots he is clearly on a live horse. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Barry Jones and May Britt are all clearly on mechanical horses in their close shots.
May Britt and Anita Ekberg had their voices dubbed by others.
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