{"id":36795,"date":"2024-09-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36795"},"modified":"2024-09-19T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T00:55:59","slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36795","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; (1962) directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Phillip Alford \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092224zview_tokillmockingbird.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1962)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Robert Mulligan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Horton Foote;\u00a0<\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XAmmL8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD<\/a> by <strong>Harper Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna<\/strong><strong>, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Brock Peters, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox Paxton, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, William Windom, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale <\/strong>and <strong>Robert Duvall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The most beloved and widely read Pulitzer Prize Winner now comes vividly alive on the screen!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Summer is always the best time for Scout (Badham), her older brother Jem (Alford) and their friend Dill (Megna).\u00a0 Like most kids, they play games, stay out until dark and share stories.\u00a0 Often their tales involve Boo Radley who lives in the scary house just down the way.\u00a0 Since no one has ever seen Boo, imaginations run wild. Scout&#8217;s Dad, Atticus (Peck) warns the children to stay away from the Radley house.\u00a0 This just makes the stories more exciting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Atticus is a widowed lawyer and well respected in the town.\u00a0 That is until, he agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman.\u00a0 Taking on this case in Alabama in the early 1930s sets off a certain segment of the population.\u00a0 Unfortunately, even Scout and Jem aren&#8217;t safe from taunts and threats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the case progresses, tension throughout the small town escalates.\u00a0 Before it is over, the powder keg will blow and the truth about Boo Radley will be known.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic.\u00a0 It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>nominee<em>\u00a0Best Music, Score &#8211; Substantially Original<\/em>: <strong>Elmer Bernstein<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>nominee <em>Best Cinematography, Black-and-White<\/em>: <strong>Russell Harlan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>nominee <em>Best Director<\/em>: <strong>Robert Mulligan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>nominee <em>Best Actress in a Supporting Role<\/em>: <strong>Mary Badham<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">winner <em>Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White<\/em>: <strong>Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>winner <em>Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium<\/em>: <strong>Horton Foote<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>winner <em>Best Actor in a Leading Role<\/em>: <strong>Gregory Peck<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>winner <em>Best Picture<\/em>: <strong>Alan J. Pakula<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brock Peters, who played Tom Robinson the man accused of rape in the film, gave Gregory Peck&#8217;s eulogy at his funeral.<\/p>\n<p>First credited role of Robert Duvall and film debut of William Windom.<\/p>\n<p>The character Dill was based on Truman Capote, a childhood friend of author Harper Lee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/b><\/i> (1962)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z092224zview_tokillmockingbird2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Director: Robert Mulligan Screenplay: Horton Foote;\u00a0based on TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36935,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36795\/revisions\/36935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}