[ April 25, 2024 ]
Saturday Night Cinema feature tonight is the Acadmy award winning "To Kill a Mockingbird." An American film classic, based upon a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (Horton Foote won the Oscar for adapting the screenplay). In the rural American south during the depths of the Depression, two children watch as their principled father takes a stand.
If you haven't seen it, you are in for an extraordinary film experience. If you have, well, then, you know.
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One of the top 100 films of all time:
The film begins by portraying the innocence and world of play of a tomboyish six year-old girl named Scout (Mary Badham) and her ten year-old brother Jem (Phillip Alford), and their perceptions of their widower attorney father Atticus (Gregory Peck). They also fantasize about a 'boogeyman' recluse who inhabits a mysterious house in their neighborhood. They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father's unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a Southern white woman. Although racism dooms the accused man, a prejudiced adult vengefully attacks the children on a dark night – they are unexpectedly delivered from real harm in the film's climax by the reclusive neighbor, "Boo" Radley.
The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture (producer Alan J. Pakula lost to the epic Lawrence of Arabia (1962)), Best Director (Robert Mulligan), Best Supporting Actress (Mary Badham, sister of director John Badham, known for Saturday Night Fever (1977), Stakeout (1987), and other films), Best B/W Cinematography (Russell Harlan), and Best Music Score – Substantially Original (an evocative score by Elmer Bernstein). It was honored with three awards – Gregory Peck won a well-deserved Best Actor Award (his first Oscar win and fifth Oscar nomination) for his solid performance as a courageous Alabama lawyer, Horton Foote won the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar (Foote won a second Oscar for Tender Mercies (1983)), and the team of Art Directors/Set Decorators also received the top honor. [Although Gregory Peck's inspirational performance as Atticus Finch turned out to be a perfect highlight to his long career, Rock Hudson was actually the studio's first choice for the role.]
Relationships formed during filming would last for the remainder of Gregory Peck's life — he received the pocketwatch of Harper Lee's father; he became the surrogate father to Mary Badham; and Brock Peters delivered Peck's eulogy after his death in June of 2003.
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9 Comments
12 years ago
Re: SATURDAY NIGHT CINEMA: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is the story of a jihad guy in Virginia who tried to take out the South Park guys for putting Muhammad in a Teddy Bear suit. It’s the gripping story of threats, incitement to violence etc. by a Muslim who had a problem with free political speech (ideas and opinions). He couldn’t tell the difference between incitement and ideas and opinions.
12 years ago
AWESOME POST! Thanks for putting this up!!
Steve
Common Cents
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
12 years ago
that’s a great scene. I like that video clip.
12 years ago
One of my favorite movies and books of all time — ever since I was a kid.
12 years ago
pamela, friends:
scout is drawn in the image of harper lee, the author of the book that became the movie.
boo radley is played by robert duvall. and, dill, the odd little boy who is scout’s friend in the book, is based upon truman capote, who was harper lee’s friend as a child in life. i have just read a little refresher on this, and it mentioned lee & capote’s friendship: i have read in other places and in other times that they were cousins.
yes, harper lee’s father in life was a lawyer. and, harper lee was law school educated, though i do not know if she practiced. and, as an interesting tidbit in the article i just read, lee accompanied truman capote when he did his field research on the book that became “in cold blood.” for some odd reason, i find this quite interesting.
john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa
12 years ago
My favorite movie of all time, and only Gregory Peck could have carried that role off, Rock Hudson was only ever a light weight actor..I never tire of watching this great old movie, and the black guy,Brock Peters, was great, did he ever act in any other role after this film, anyone know?
12 years ago
Your computer is your friend:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Peters
12 years ago
Thank you Pamela for posting this film.
Almost 50 years ago, our teacher (I grew up in Canada, live in Denmark now) told us that this movie was an absolute “must see” (she didn’t use those exact words but that’s what she meant). I never got around to seeing until now. Now I know what she meant….
12 years ago
Thank you Pamela,
This was one of my favorite movies of all time. I can watch it again and again and I am doing so now because of your generosity.
Bless you!!!!
