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...Kill a Mockingbird. Like the Pulitzer Prize novel by Harper Lee, this picture is two things in one: a black-and-white meller and a tomboy ode to the Great American Childhood. Gregory Peck is appealing as the father figure, and the children (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna) are three little darbs...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama, was a tired old town in the '30s. "Grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. But it was a time of vague optimism. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear...
...Mockingbird has nothing very profound to say about the South and its problems. Sometimes, in fact, its side-porch sociology is simply fatuous: the Negro is just too goody-good to be true, and Peck, though he is generally excellent, lays it on a bit thick at times-he seems to imagine himself the Abe Lincoln of Alabama. But the children are fine. John Megna, who played in Broadway's All the Way Home, has talent as well as teeth. Mary Badham and Phillip Alford, a couple of nice kids the producer found in Birmingham, don't have...
...Kill a Mockingbird...
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