As I type this blog entry tonight, I am still sniffling/eyes are sore from crying my eyes out at this movie — I had watched parts of it when I was around my family, probably around the age of 5 or so, and then when i was 12/13 had been assigned to read it in my middle school English class [where we basically did an in-depth analysis of every line/that was the beginning of “annotations” for me in school] — and I think I had seen a couple of clips that were shown in class as we were going through the book, but since then…[please excuse this extremely LONG run-on sentence.] I hadn’t watched it…until now.
Wow, all of these feelings, all over my heart. Definitely one of the best movies I have ever seen. Up there with Gone with the Wind…anyways…trying to recover here.
God, that is a beautiful film, the kind of beautiful that can be happy, funny, sweet, and horribly heart wrenching/make you cry like a baby *ex: me.*
Anyways, here are some things. ❤
[pictures, quotes, etc…you know the drill.]
The following info is from IMDB
The movie is based on a novel by Harper Lee, who interestingly enough was the assistant to Truman Capote when he did the research for the book “In Cold Blood.”
The story is told through the eyes of six-year-old Scout (Mary Badham), a feisty young girl who lives in a small Alabama town with her older brother, Jem (Philip Alford) and their widower father, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck).
Directed by
Robert Mulligan
Writers
Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Harper Lee
Screenplay
Horton Foote
Producers
Alan J. Pakula … producer
Cast – in credits order
Gregory Peck … Atticus Finch
John Megna … Dill Harris
Frank Overton … Sheriff Heck Tate
Rosemary Murphy … Maudie Atkinson
Ruth White … Mrs. Dubose
Brock Peters … Tom Robinson
Estelle Evans … Calpurnia
Paul Fix … Judge Taylor
Collin Wilcox¹ … Mayella Violet Ewell
James Anderson … Bob Ewell
Alice Ghostley … Aunt Stephanie Crawford
Robert Duvall … Boo Radley
William Windom … Mr. Gilmer – Prosecutor
Crahan Denton … Walter Cunningham Sr.
Richard Hale … Nathan Radley
Mary Badham … Scout
Phillip Alford … Jem
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| Gregory Peck & Mary Badham |
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| Gregory Peck & Harper Lee
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| Gregory Peck & Mary Badham |
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| Phillip Alford & Mary Badham |
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| Mary Badham & Gregory Peck |
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| Gregory Peck |
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| Gregory Peck |
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| Mary Badham & [director] Robert Mulligan |
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| Mary Badham & Gregory Peck |
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| Phillip Alford, Gregory Peck, & Mary Badham |
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| Mary Badham |
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| [Director] Robert Mulligan |
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| Gregory Peck |
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| Gregory Peck and Brock Peters |
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