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Saturday, September 13 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11:15p.m.). Gregory Peck in his Oscar-winning performance as the small-town Southern lawyer who defends a young black (Brock Peters) on a rape charge in To Kill a Mockingbird...
What, Canada's Prime Minister was asked, did he want to see most in Washington? "The sun," he replied. He got his wish. Walking through the White House Rose Garden last week, he looked up as the sun broke through the mist and a mockingbird burst into song from the topmost branch of a budding magnolia tree...
...KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper...
...directed with an eye for striking light effects and sharp blackouts. He helps give the show backbone where it has none. And the players, all 14 of them, are uniformly good, projecting age convincingly and boasting authentic-sounding accents. Even the accents that wouldn't fool a Midlands mockingbird are consistent, and that is what counts. Best of all, this production somehow catches the gypsy superstition and ballady poetry of the play, and never lets the numberless moments of high passion numb the audience...
...Caine character and his giant industrial complex, symbolic of the sudden change coming over the South in the wake of the war -- is ultimately lost beneath a rubbish of uninteresting violence and melodrama. A trial scene straight out of Perry Mason (via Horton Foote and To Kill a Mockingbird) works by itself but doesn't jell at all with the rest of the picture. A hopelessly embarrassing songfest, at which the town's entire Negro population is conveniently present, reminds one of similar affairs in Marx Bros. movies...