To kill a mockingbird [DVD] / screenplay by Horton Foote ; produced by Alan J. Pakula ; directed by Robert Mulligan ; a Universal International presentation of a Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions picture.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel written by Harper Lee. Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Rosemary Murphy, John Megna, Frank Overton, Brock Peters, Alice Ghostley, William Windom.
Contents:
Disc 1: The film ; Bonus features: Academy Award best actor acceptance speech; American Film Institute Life Achievement Award; excerpt from Academy Tribute to Gregory Peck; Scout remembers; feature commentary with director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan Pakula; theatrical trailer; production notes. -- Disc 2: A conversation with Gregory Peck / film by Cecilia Peck ... [et al.] ; produced & directed by Barbara Kopple (1999 ; 97 min.) ; Fearful symmetry: the making of To kill a mockingbird / a film by Charles Kiselyak. (1998 ; 90 min.).
Summary:
Gregory Peck plays a southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece.
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