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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

post #1 of 6
12/30/08 at 10:49pm
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Whenever they teach lead performances in acting classes, it should be required that this film be shown. Peck just puts on an acting university in this one. His speech at the end (which is almost word for word from the book as I recall) is probably the most powerful speech ever filmed. Personally, I would have hated to be on the Academy in 1962. You had to pick To Kill A Mockingbird, Lawrence of Arabia or Manchurian Candidate as best picture. It's also pretty amazing none of the child actors are terrible in this.

One of the few times the film was just as powerful as it's source material.
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post #2 of 6
12/30/08 at 11:32pm
I love this scene. So surreal.
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post #3 of 6
12/31/08 at 2:48am
Such a great movie. I try to watch it at least once a year, and yes, the acting is fantastic.
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post #4 of 6
12/31/08 at 3:21am
I bust out that speech whenever I'm doing a job interview.

"n the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson. And hire me."
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post #5 of 6
12/31/08 at 3:38am
I just rewatched this via The Darkness.
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post #6 of 6
3/5/11 at 9:56am

It's an amazing film from an acting standpoint, it's essentially a chamber drama given enormous power by the amazing source material and Peck's incredible performance. It'd be easy to play Atticus as almost too goody, goody, but Peck finds a decency in the character which is never preachy. He's a man out of time almost and his increasingly wearied performance really gets across how crushingly dogmatic the racial prejudices of the time were. 

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