*THIS MOVIES IMPORTANT!* To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION
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- Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
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Gregory Peck won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch. Harper Lee, who wrote the novel, visited the set, and she watched the filming of the scene where the kids run to meet Atticus as he came home from work. When the shot was over, Peck went over to speak to Harper Lee and found her in tears. She said he reminded so much of her father.
I heard that Harper Lee's dad heard her and her friend Truman Capote (the one who wrote In Cold blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, I think his parents just left him with his mothers relatives in Alabama for a few years during their divorce and never visited) telling each other the stories they'd made up, so he bought them a typewriter so they'd spend time dictating their stories for the other to write down.
For me Mitchum was the best full of leering menace ,Peck played virtually the same character in most of his films .
“Hey, Boo.” Robert Duvall’s film debut. FYI, the visiting child Dill was based on the author’s childhood friend Truman Capote. Also, Arthur Radley was a WWI veteran suffering from PTSD, then called shell shock.
I knew Dill was based on Truman Capote, but I never new that about Arthur Radley. Very interesting.
they never said Boo was in WWI
the kid who played Dill was also young Hyman Roth in GodfatherII@@mersmyth5280
You did such an outstanding job on this film that I have subscribed and hope to have your input on others!
@@matthewcostello3530 Good catch, Matthew! it is never mentioned or referred to in the novel.
Robert Duvall’s first movie. He did not say a word.
But said so much with his eyes. Makes me
Cry every time.
Dave, now you why I choose older movies. The actors act. There's not a lot of special effects, so the actors push the film and great actors can push a film all the way to the Oscar's. I love it. DO MORE.
I greatly appreciate that the filmmakers in those days always gave their movies first, second and third acts. I've noticed that around about the 90s their started a trend; particularly in most Hollywood movies; where the setup is all there in the first act but then they throw out the rest for endless action scenes or something, e.g. cheap dramatic pay-offs. Sometimes it depends on the type of movie, but it's generally sloppy, uncreative and predictable.
Brock Peters, the actor who played Tom Robinson gave the eulogy at Gregory Peck's funeral. Great film!
The music when Scout finally meets Boo Radley is so beautiful. No matter how many times I’ve seen this film that part makes me tear up.
One of my favorite scenes is the only one not in the book, where Scout and Jem are talking about their mother with Atticus overhearing them on the porch. Just heartbreaking.
Yeah that broke my heart too 💔
I love the scene as well.
I was watching it in class and I realized that their mother would've sat out there with him before she died and my heart broke
The kids fear of Boo Radley and making him into a larger than life monster is a metaphor for the ignorance that many held towards black people and the irrational fear they were subjected to. When Boo does "come out" and it's shown he's a kind, innocent man who was misunderstood and mistreated, it reveals the irrational nature of fear and prejudice. I did my Master's thesis on the book, one of the best things I ever did in life.
Well said.
Gregory Peck nailed Atticus Finch's closing argument in ONE TAKE. What an actor!!!
Interestingly, I read somewhere that one of the harder scenes for him to do was the one immediately following the verdict where he packs up his stuff and leaves. He was directed not to have any sort of emotion at all, and that was really difficult given the context.
Thousands of young people became lawyers because of this movie
You’re the only reactor I’ve seen doing this movie. They’re so many fantastic B/w movies out there they can’t even begin to be listed. It wasn’t called the “Golden Age of Hollywood” for nothing. I haven’t seen a reaction to “Breakfast at Tiffanis” either. Classic.
Glad you enjoyed my video!
We need to campaign for more Reactors to do older movies.
I had the privilege of meeting Harper Lee. She wasn't thrilled at having a brunch but she still did it and we talked as women writers. She was such a character, an awesome person.
Great movie. The acting and writing are perfect. Atticus was such a caring and nice man who loved his kids. Interesting fact, at Gregory Pecks funeral, the man who played Tom Robinson gave the eulogy at the funeral. Lot of respect there.
Incredible movie. Gregory Peck is an amazing actor. I loved him in Moby Dick as Captain Ahab. Would love for you to react/watch that one. Great reaction! Would love to see you watch older classics. So many great ones out there. The actors back then had to really act. No CGI or special effects to help them out. All true acting.
Cape Fear also alongside Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch at the 1963 Academy Awards Ceremony
gregory peck is one of my favorite actors. he has a screen presence and and a voice of authority while maintaining an air of patience, intelligence and vulnerability. you should see him in hitchcock's "spellbound" (1945), the 1947 classic "gentleman's agreement" about american anti-semitism, "the man in the gray flannel suit" (1956) "cape fear" (1962) or "the omen" (1976).
as a kid "to kill a mockingbird" showed on tv every couple of years. we kids didn't care much about the court scenes but were mesmerized by the kids. i kinda thought the film was a horror film because of spooky "boo" radley. the book is real good too and, of course, goes into much more detail about some of the characters. for instance, the old lady on the porch the kids were afraid of was a morphine addict.
i sure wish movie reactors would spend more time watching BEAUTIFULLY well-made films like this rather than crap like "ace ventura: pet detective" and "caddyshack."
They asked Atticus to defend Tom Robinson. They make point to show that he was busy - that he didn't need the work. He knew who Tom Robinson was, even if we didn't. He CHOSE to defend him, in spite of the trouble he knew it would bring.
This movie has stuck with me profoundly, I saw it on TV when I was a kid in the 70’s then again in the late 80’s in my 20’s and I better understood the racism. It’s a brilliant film, and I should one day get around to reading the book. If I can recommend another BW classic , it would be “The Bad Seed” with child actress Patty McCormic playing a young girl who is basically a homicidal maniac.
This is my favorite movie of all time. Beating even Casablanca and Terminator 2. The author, Harper Lee, based Dill on a real childhood friend of hers who years later, would become an author in his own right, Truman Capote, who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. During the filming of the movie, Harper Lee and Gregory Peck became lifelong friends.
Gregory Peck got a Oscar
Pastor his
Performance. So earned
.❤❤❤
Definitely one of the great movies of all time.
I love this movie.
Gregory Peck won best actor at the Oscar's that year and he certainly earned and deserved it!
It's on my own top 20 greatest films of all time list and I never get tired of rewatching it.
I'm glad you finally had the chance to appreciate this great masterpiece.
Gregory Peck deserved the Best Actor Oscar for this! We had to watch this in high school which was my first time to watch this. I give this movie a 5 out of 5! My other favorite Gregory Peck films are Spellbound (1945), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Boys from Brazil (1978) and of course To Kill a Mockingbird and The Omen which you already saw.
He was definitely ahead of his time.
Twelve O'Clock High (1949) is also a very good watch, if you like your war movies mixed with some interesting psychological drama.
Well you done made me cry watching this, such a great movie. No car chases, no explosions , no fighter jets, just a good story and good acting
When you watch this Gregory Peck is not an actor, he is Atticus Finch. That is acting.
Atticus is #1 in list of heroes
Dude, what a beautiful reaction to a great movie (it was a great book too). And the fact that you recognized Robert Duvall totally made it even better! That guy's been in a lot of classics, what can you say? lol! You're totally right: it's as relevant as ever. Sometimes I take this movie for granted, and watching it with you right now just brought back how great it is. Those kids are INCREDIBLE. Gregory Peck is the ultimate "good dad" in this one. Hey, if you want to see Gregory Peck in a totally different role, check out "Moby Dick". Great movie, and he's crazy and intense in that one. "Cape Fear" is great also....as is the De Niro/Scorsese remake. Gregory Peck is in both! Both are worth seeing.
Hey thanks for watching! I've actually seen the Cape Fear remake but never the original . I need to!
@@FlixTalk I think the original "Cape Fear" was made the same year as "To Kill A Mockingbird", now that I think about it! Ha! Peck had a damn good year! The original "Cape Fear" rocks! (I'm happy you've seen the remake; can you believe there's not ONE reaction to that movie, yet?!!! Not one "Cape Fear" reaction!)
If you haven't seen "Mississippi Burning" you MUST. I think it's one of those films that should be watched by everyone at least once.
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for this role. Well deserved. One of my all time favorites. It was Robert Duvall's first film.
One of my favorite books and movies! Was so good!
There are many famous quotes from TKAM. Those that stick with me are not the famous ones such as "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird", or "Climb in his skin and walk around in it", but "Stand up Scout, your father's a passing". This is about doing something extraordinary in a moment that isn't extraordinary. Scout didn't want to stand up, but she realised the entire community respected her father for doing what was neither comfortable nor convenient. Respect where it's deserved not where it's easy is so important.
This movie gets me to tears at so many points......just incredible screenplay, incredible acting.....the soundtrack just exudes feeling.
'Roman Holiday'... with Audrey Hepburn... you'll love it...
I L O V E seeing you react to older “Classic” films, there are a Wealth of great movies to see and every decade from the 1910’s to the 1980’s has some great films to see. Some of Gregory Peck’s films are: The Yearling (1946), Twelve O’Clock High (1949), The Keys Of The Kingdom (1944), Cape Fear (1962), Moby Dick (1956), Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), David And Bathsheba (1951). Days Of Glory (1944) was his first film and Cape Fear (1962) was his last feature film.
Thank you for watching! Many more to come
" Cape Fear (1962) was his last feature film." Wasn't he the star of 'The Omen' in 1976? I think you are thinking of the Cape Fear in 1991, which was his final film role. (he was in both the 60's version and the 90's version)
@@shwicaz My bad, I got the date wrong.😁Thanks.
This book makes me cry every time. And the movie is superb! I wish this was available on streaming.
I just found your channel and well done! This, as well as the book it is based on, are masterpieces.
I never fail to cry when I watch this movie or even just a few scenes of this movie. The hard realities of this world as seen thru the eyes of innocence.
The lessons that this story teaches are timeless and should never stop being passed on. Especially, and unfortunately since we still haven’t learned most of them to this day. It makes me happy when I see reactors watch important films like this. The internet is a very powerful tool and every time it is used to spread the kind of message this story tells is a good thing. If you are still interested in older b&w movies I would recommend “A Patch of Blue”(1965) & “The Miracle Worker”(1962). Both are excellent and powerful films,imo anyway.
A Patch of Blue touches on a few real world issues in the form of an unlikely friendships & love.
The Miracle Worker is based on the true story of Anne Sullivan, who was the first tutor of Helen Keller, who was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer in the 1920’s thru to her death in the 1960’s I believe.
In the book, Boo Radley is a WWI vet who is shell shocked (PTSD). It is my favorite movie and book. The tv show I’ll Fly Away was inspired by Calpurnia, their black housekeeper. That too made me bawl my eyes out. This is my favorite Gregory Peck Film.
@Clare Alderwood I'll Fly Away is a forgotten gem of a tv show & in my top ten list of favorite tv shows
LOVE that show!
I remember when I saw this in the movies in 1962 in Detroit. The scene where for the young fella was pouring all the syrup out and Scout said "what in the Sam Hill are you doing"? everybody in the theater Roared with laughter. That's because there were mostly young people in there and when she said "Sam Hill" we kids thought she said Sam H_ll! 😄
In a book about Samuel Leibowitz, a New York lawyer who defended the Scotsboro Boys (five african-americans accused of rape in Alabama in the 1930s), Leibowitz was told by Southern lawyers that you couldn't cross-examine a white woman who accused a black man of rape, because the law assumed that no white woman would make up such a story that would bring such shame and disgrace on herself. Whether this was an actual rule of Alabama courts or just what was expected of southern gentleman lawyers, I am not sure.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. So glad to see someone discover it.
‘He’s not worth it.’ Just by his size Atticus could’ve ripped that man apart if he wanted to. The strength to walk away. Don’t fuck with the quiet ones. The longer the fuse the bigger the bomb.
I can't tell you how MUCH I LOVE this movie and how many times I have seen it since it was first in the theaters in 1962, I NEVER TIRE of it. Gregory Peck is one of my FAVORITE actors of all time, and THIS is my FAVORITE role that he has ever played. Another thing I love is the MUSIC, the theme song, it is SO BEAUTIFUL. To KILL A MOCKINGBIRD was required reading in my junior high English class. When the movie came out, our teacher took us to the theater to see it. Now some people want to ban this book...that is a crime. I LOVED how you mentioned "TWELVE ANGRY MEN"! THAT is another very favorite movie of mine that I have watched many many times!
I would like to suggest a couple of other black and white movies that I also think you will like, if you haven't seen them already. "A PATCH OF BLUE" starring SIDNEY POITIER, SHELLEY WINTERS AND ELIZABETH HARTMAN (from 1965). It is about a friendship between an educated black man and an illiterate, blind, white 18 year old girl during racially divided America. It's a BEAUTIFUL movie.
The other is "FAIL SAFE" from 1964, starring HENRY FONDA, AND WALTER MATTHAU (make sure THIS is the one you watch, cos there was a remake in 2000 which doesn't live up to the original in my view.) FAIL SAFE was also required reading in high school. The premise is chilling and is also relevant today. It always will be as long as the world has atomic weapons. The acting is amazing and it's very tense in parts. It always scared me because this kind of thing could happen. I HOPE you will REACT to both those movies I suggested ...that is, IF you haven't already seen them. THANKS for this one, I REALLY ENJOYED watching it (AGAIN) with you.
Duel in the Sun is a great Gregory Peck movie. I remember being obsessed with this movie playing it constantly for months. So well done.
I was too!
Original version of CAPE FEAR, with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Well worth a look.
The BEST Cape Fear❤
Gregory Peck and Mary Badham (Scout) formed a genuine bond during the filming. They addressed each other as Atticus and Scout for the rest of Peck's life.
After this, Mary Badham had a few roles here and there until just a year or two later. Her last role was in the last episode of the original Twilight Zone.
When the older Scout says at the beginning that the town had been told it had nothing to fear but fear itself, she's repeating a phrase from Franklin Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address.
You might like to see the 1959 movie (in black-and-white) Anatomy of a Murder. The main cast is: James Stewart as a lawyer defending a man accused of murder; Eve Arden is his secretary, who treats him like an equal, and with dry humor; Ben Gazzara as the man accused; Lee Remick (age 23 at the time, in her first role in the movies) as his wife, who was raped by the man her husband is accused of killing; and George C. Scott as a prosecutor.
The judge is played by none other than Joseph N. Welch, a lawyer who defended the Army in Army-McCarthy hearings in Congress in the early 1950s. Senator Joseph McCarthy was determined -- or seemed to be -- to get every communist on the planet in jail. A lot of people got hurt -- lost their jobs, and worse -- because of him. On June 9, 1954, McCarthy did something so shitty, Welch said, "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?" That was the end of McCarthy. (All that has nothing to do with the movie, I just felt like talking about it.)
The movie is based on a real case which took place in Upper Michigan several years before the movie was made. It was filmed on location. Some of the jurors in the real case played the jury in the movie case.
Good stuff.
Great story line, wonderful acting, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is wonderful Classic movie!
Gregory Peck was an extraordinary actor, and a great man. He's been in over 50 movies from all genres', Dramas, Westerns, even comedies. One of my favorite comedies with him is "Designing Women" in 1957.
He plays a blue-collar Sport Columnist from New York, who likes to play Poker with his working-class friends,.... who marries an upper-class, successful fashion designer, from Beverly Hills. Their lives could not be further apart, which presents funny situations.
May I congratulate you on the edit you did on this superb film. It must of been very difficult to do but you captured the very essence of the main speeches done by the characters.
I first saw Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday when I was about 10 years old in my native Denmark. Have liked him ever since, this movie is my favorite with Gregory Peck. He comes off as very reassuring there is something calming and comforting about his demeanor in almost any movie he is in. I agree that the speech he made in the courtroom is one of the most powerful. I especially remember one phrase from Gregory Peck "The courts are our great equalizer", you hope so, but not in this movie.
Another very profound movie with Gregory Peck is the movie The Yearling
In 2003 the American Film Institute came out with their list of the greatest Heroes & Villains screen characters and the #1 Hero was Atticus Finch played by Gregory Peck in this film. #2 was Indiana Jones and #3 was James Bond. They made the right choice.
Atticus was doing the right thing for his profession , children , and himself as a man with morals. It's really sad what happened with Tom
Although 50 years later Harper Lee published the second book and so many people were disappointed Atticus defends "separate but equal" , he does think in the eyes of the law everyone should be treated fairly and have a trial, BUT he also supports racial segregation and his now adult daughter Scout confronts him about how that's racist-- so she's disappointed and no longer idolizes her father as "a hero" and just sees him for who he is, like everyone else a man with flaws and biases etc...
I have so many Peck movies, but I choose for you "The Big Country".
The author, Harper Lee, said that, when casting for the movie, she wasn't convinced Peck was right for the role of her father. Gregory Peck visited her at the family home and asked to speak with Mr. Lee for a bit. Harper Lee waited outside for a bit and then her father came out. Only it wasn't her father, it was Gregory Peck, who had grasped her father in just that little while.
That's one of my all time favorite movies and book. We read it and watched it in 7th grade.
this movie is my favorite movie of all time...... Gregory Peck is my 2nd fav actor, Al Pacino is my first, THE GOAT.. Gregory Peck " THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL 1978 HE PLAYS A VERY BAD DUDE
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic. So good. Roman Holiday is my favorite Gregory Peck movie (and one of my favorite movies of all time).
This book and movie always gave me a nostalgic feeling, as though I lived with these characters and felt what they went through. Only the best writing and acting can bring that off.
Two other great Gregory Peck movies are The Yearling and Roman Holiday. He had an amazing and long career.
I grew up in the deep south in the 1950s. We had two theaters The Texas and The Showboat. Blacks weren't allowed in the Showboat, and had to sit in the balcony in the Texas. There were separate drinking fountains for colored and white in town.
My younger brother and I spent the summer of 1959 on my uncle's farm in northwest Louisiana. One day, we were riding around in a friend's car, shooting road signs and mailboxes with a .22 pistol. We pulled up to a black teen standing by the road. My friend pointed the pistol at the kid, and he ran. "I bet he beat Jessie Owens' record," my friend laughed..
I asked, "How fast do you think you'd run if a carload of them pointed a gun at you?"
My brother and our friends looked at me like I had just dropped in from another planet.
A carload of black boys doing that to a white boy wouldn't live to see the next sunrise.
I was a couple of years behind you. There were three theaters, the Rodeo that was for blacks, the Esquire that was for whites, and the Chief where blacks could sit in the balcony. I was in middle school before I had ever met a white person or knew one by name.
One of the best books and films of all time. Incredible. This is my fave Gregory Peck movie, hands down. You just cannot beat it. And btw, I grew up in a sleepy little town like that (though it was not the 30s, but the 60s) and kids really truly DO run around like that. It's quite common here in the South in small cities/towns. Kids in general have much more free reign over their "free time", and more responsibility in general. Of course, if you made bad decisions about how you spent your time, you got in loads of trouble, lol. My father grew up in the same small town and THAT was in the 30s -- And, even though he was lucky enough to have parents who were not prejudiced and did not teach them to be, they still had to be careful about their behavior....He told a story where he and his black friend were sitting on the fence of their property by the road, where they could be openly seen by anyone, and when his dad got home, he got a real talking to and a spanking because he had been seen and people had told his dad. He didn't get in trouble because he was with a black boy. He got in trouble because at that time being seen with a black person was all it took to get members of the Klan to come after you. His dad impressed on him the fact that even though it wasn't wrong, he still had to be careful, because the Klan could come and hurt any one of his family members and his mom. Hard lesson, and one that shouldn't have to be taught at all.
As much as I love this movie, my favorites Gregory Peck movie is Captain Newman, MD. He filmed it right after To Kill a Mockingbird. He plays a Doctor dealing with soldiers in WW II who have PTSD. A great movie.
Bro, Can't believe you did this, my favorite book, movie and soundtrack of all time because NO ONEon CZcams does this one and it's a shame.
When I was a kid, this was shown every Halloween and we never missed it. When I got to high school and read the book, I was hooked. I even found a girl who looked just like Jean Louise, even with same haircut, nicknamed her Scout and married her. My closest friends knew why I was so happy and couldn't believe I met this girl.
Thanks, man.
I'm glad you enjoyed the reaction and I'm glad I could be one of the first to react to it. It was an amazing film. Thank you for watching
I agree with you completely. I have several editions of the book, and the film on Blu-ray. Saw it re-released and remastered in the theater a few years ago with my 3 adult sons. We all felt like we were seeing it for the first time, so powerful on the big screen. Not changed but still almost like watching a new movie. Elmer Bernstein's score is simply beautiful and arresting.
This is one of the first movies I ever saw. Great movie and sad
"I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Why?"
"Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us."
Fun Fact: The first scene that Gregory Peck shot showed him returning home from his character's law office while his children ran to greet him. Author Harper Lee was a guest on the set that day, and Peck noticed her crying after the scene was filmed. He asked Lee why she was crying, and she responded that Peck had looked just like her late father, the model for Atticus.
Do Not Cry Challenge Fact: Brock Peters (Tom Robinson) started to cry while filming his testifying scenes, without rehearsing it this way, and Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch) said that he looked past him, instead of looking at him in the eye, to avoid choking up himself.
Not For Me Fact: Despite universal praise for the novice film actress and actor, neither Mary Badham nor Phillip Alford chose to capitalize on their stunning film debuts. Badham retired from acting and married a schoolteacher, living near Richmond, VA, and spent most of her time raising her two children. Alford later became a successful businessman in Birmingham, AL.
Phillip Alford did do a little more acting though, notably as "Boy Anderson" in *Shenandoah* (1965) starring James Stewart, and made a number television appearances in the decade following *To Kill a Mockingbird.*
Mary Badham’s brother John became a film director whose best-known works are Saturday Night Fever and WarGames.
@@kathyastrom1315 He also directed the 1979 version of *Dracula* starring Frank Langella.
It’s been a while since the last time I watched this, such a great film. First time I saw it was in middle school, my English teacher had us watch it after reading the book, they’re both absolutely incredible.
Great first time recation David and to kill a mockingbird is one of my all time favorite movies and fun fact I actually read the book at my school and it was a really great read
Mayella was beaten on her right side. If she was facing her attacker, then he struck her with his left hand. Tom Robinson cannot use his left arm, but Mayella's father is left-handed.
There are a number of additional scenes and dialogue in the book that fill out the story. Movies always have to be streamlined and visual of course. One of the most interesting parts to me was the morning after the trial, Atticus found that the back porch was filled with bundles of collards and other typical rural foods. The housekeeper, Calpurnia, explained that the black people had been bringing things to pay tribute for the arguments Atticus made in the trial. He choked up a bit and told her to tell the other black people not to bring any more: the Finches were not wealthy, but they were nowhere near as poor as the black people of the county. They had just felt compelled to express thanks for laying bare the issues that the black people faced.
I have been a lawyer in the deep south since the 80s. I saw many courthouses where it would have been easy to have segregated galleries. I remember one in particular where the sign that said 'Colored Entrance' had been removed from the foot of a set of stairs. I know that's what the sign had said because the sun had bleached the paint everywhere but where the board of the sign had been, and the letters had been cut into the board, allowing the words to be bleached into the paint as well.
I always wish that Calpurnia had been given a little more to do in the film version; she's a much more significant character in the novel. The few moments in the movie when Cal takes center stage show that Estelle Evans would have ROCKED with additional material.
I can keep on watching this movie over and over again and never get bored of it!
I first read the book when I was eleven and I, now aged sixty, still enjoy reading it. The same applies to the movie.
Great reaction - thank you! This is my favorite Gregory Peck film, however a close second is "Roman Holiday" (1952) which was Audrey Hepburn's film debut.
'The Guns of Navarone' is my favorite Gregory Peck movie.
One of my all time Classic favorites. My worn book copy is a treasure as well. So nice to see others enjoy it and get the message that was told so beautifully by Harper Lee and shown so beautifully through incredible acting. 12 Angry Men is also an excellent film.
my vote is also for "12 Angry Men" plus "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" which is another wonderful movie and which (I don't thinkl?) anyone has ever done a reaction to on CZcams. Oh and "Casablanca".
Brock Peters ( Tom ) delivered the eulogy for his decades long friend Gregory Peck ( Atticus) at Peck's funeral in 2003.
11:36 She was explaining to their teacher why Walter Cunningham didn't have any money for his lunch - his dads the one who brought them the nuts at the beginning because they couldn't afford to pay Atticus in money - and didn't realise that she was embarrassing him because she was telling the teacher and the whole class how poor he and his family were. She just thought she was being helpful, and then the teacher told her off about it and then Scout jumped him because she held him accountable for her getting in trouble as if he'd done it on purpose.
The jury's the real villain in this movie
27:01 In the book he said that she'd said that "what her daddy do to her don't count".
He was basically the only person to treat her with any decency, doing chores for her without charge because he knew she couldn't spare it, and because her father and younger siblings never seemed to help her with anything when she was the only person there to try and make the place look even just a bit nice (they mention there's red flowers in the window that she waters every day).
That's why she tried to kiss him and wanted him to kiss her back. And that's another reason why she lied - she couldn't let anyone know she tried to kiss a black man. That and she's terrified of her father.
I was born in 63 a year after this film and it is still my favorite Gregory Peck. I also like Roman holiday with him and Audrey Heffner. Another good one is a western with him and Charlton Heston.
A Broadway play version of *To Kill a Mockingbird,* rewritten to give more emphasis to the perspective of the story's black characters, opened in 2018 and ran for more than a year, but closed prematurely due to the Covid epidemic.
This was Gregory Peck's favorite role of his entire career.
One of my most favorite movies.
I haven’t seen this movie in decades. Saw it whenever it came on TV in the 1960s and 70s. Wow! Sobbing! Great reaction!
Thanks for watching!
@@FlixTalk Friendly Persuasion next! It was on tv in this same time period and very good!
In my opinion this is one of the greatest films ever made.
gregory peck is one of my favorite actors. he has a screen presence and and a voice of authority while maintaining an air of patience, intelligence and vulnerability. you should see him in hitchcock's "spellbound" (1945), the 1947 classic "gentleman's agreement" about american anti-semitism, "the man in the gray flannel suit" (1956) "cape fear" (1962) or "the omen" (1976).
as a kid "to kill a mockingbird" showed on tv every couple of years. we kids didn't care much about the court scenes but were mesmerized by the kids. i kinda thought the film was a horror film because of spooky "boo" radley. the book is real good too and, of course, goes into much more detail about some of the characters. for instance, the old lady on the porch the kids were afraid of was a morphine addict.
i sure wish movie reactors would spend more time watching BEAUTIFULLY well-made films like this rather than crap like "ace ventura: pet detective" and "caddyshack."
Fantastic, thanks for watching this. My favorite book and my favorite movie. Xx
I'm 59 years old and I can remember when I was a child, in my (small) hometown in Tennessee when all the black people sat in the balcony of the local theater. Little did they know, the balcony seats were the best seats in the house.
"Scout" is an extraordinary character.
The older movies are great
The American Film Institute voted on the greatest heroes in the first 100 years of movies and Atticus Finch came in #1.
Trivia fact: Scout's actress called Peck "Atticus" until the day he died.
Her name is Mary Badham and I think she’s still alive. Your point still stands. She also has the cigar box full of “toys” from the opening of the film.
@myroselle6987 she is still alive, I just mistyped, thanks for pointing it out. Text corrected.
I was a kid in Oklahoma when my family took me to this movie when it first came out in '62. We had to sit in the balcony of the Chief theater...that's where black people had to sit...where the black people were required to sit in this courtroom. I was in middle school five years later before I ever met a white kid or white adult. I hadn't even been in the same playground as a white kid. The last time I sat in segregated movie seating was July 20, 1969. I remember the exact day because I cut a date short to get home to watch Neil Armstrong step out on the moon.
The book is a genuine delight to read...the writing is beautiful. It had surprising insights. The only fault of the movie is that it just can't contain all that the book contains.
That was Robert Duvall's first role, btw. This is certainly my favorite Gregory Peck movie.
regarding @19:50 ,In my small home town .The white people sat on one side in the Theatre and The Native People sat on the other side. Same with the two Hospital waiting rooms. Both were opposite from each other separated by a halllway.I thought my Town was the only one like this, but years later I found out other small towns had this type of segregation too. This was 1972.
John Anthony Megna(11/9/1952-9/4/1995) "Dill" has a cameo in "CANNONBALL RUN" also was in an episode of Star Terk: "Miri" his line... 'Bunk,bunk aside the head'....For me its one of my favorite, so on that note I'll give it 7☆ and read the book.
What?! I have a copy of Cannonball Run
..can't wait to spot him
A beautiful adaptation of the book . A day ago I saw the stage play . A more modern adaptation. Aaron Sorkin did a more updated version. Beautiful and different at the same time.😮
This movie and book is extremely important. In an age where if a white girl wears braids she is called a racist; it would do all kids good to be taught what Real Racism is and just how bad this country used to be and how much it has improved.
The strange thing is in some conservative states where the ban books , To Kill a Mockingbird was also banned!
Wow!
Wonderful ! Wonderful !! Movie &Review i cry everytime and just last month went to see it with Matthew Modine as Atticus in Londons west end ! Wonderful !!
The girl who played Mayella went on to be a civil rights crusader. Brock Peters is a genius, btw
One of the greatest movies/books of all time.
It's 3:00 am and I was thinking about a reaction as I can't sleep. I thought of this movie and your reaction came up. It's based on a book by Harper Lee who won a Pulitzer Prize for it. I haven't read the book since I was a kid. I hope you find interest in reading it yourself. Another good miniseries with Robert Duval is Lonesome Dove. It's about a group ranchers in the old west trying to drive cattle. There are a lot of stars you'll find familar.
This was a VERY well thought-out review. You do a great job of detailing the plot AND keeping it in the perspective of the bigotry of the day. Excellent work, Dave. Good on you!
Wonderful Reaction! This is one of the greatest films ever made -- heart-breaking and beautiful. One additional accolade to the truly beautiful film score by Elmer Bernstein.
Mary Badham had no previous acting experience when she played Scout Finch in this movie. Scout is one of my favorite fictional characters, both in the book and most definitely in Mary Badham's portrayal. To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite movie and my chihuahua is named Scout.
Brock Peters was an amazing actor
Gregory Peck was perfectly cast as Atticus Finch. They're basically the same man. Peck was a true gentleman.
I would strongly recommend the book. The movie is actually really loyal to the book, but it can't really translate some of the observations that Scout makes. There's a certain charm to the book, because it's told completely from a child's perspective and that effects how some of the events are told in her eyes; the reader, as an adult, understands the subject that the character misses. But the narrative manages to deliver that subject in a way that doesn't feel forced. And there's a lot of material in the book that didn't make it into the movie for time.
A lot of people call this a court room drama. It really isn't. It's a story about childhood. And growing up.
It's a beautiful book.
You’re right about Gregory Peck. Actors like him do not come along very often. this movie had so much substance to it, and not just because of the topic, but because of the attention to human beings and not just special effects etc.
Greg reaction. Thanks
Thank you so much for the comment & thanks for watching!