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...GREGORY PECK is a mild-mannered Hollywood liberal. He defends culpable friends in private, and perhaps the causes that incriminate them. He lends lip service and sometimes money to social crusades even in public. But he rarely instigates an action that would make a difference to anyone outside of the film industry...
PRODUCER GREGORY PECK strutted into town two weeks ago to plug the film before its short-lived Paris Theater run. Most of what he had to say had been said before. He decided to back the film at a personal financial risk of $250,000 because he saw it in Los Angeles and was moved. His Catholicism really didn't affect his decision. Peck simply wanted a way of stating the guilt of American government on screen, naming real names--without catering to the wild and unpatriotic...
...what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development. Sufficient for Peck were the facts that the Catonsville people spoke from their firsthand experiences in Latin American hills and Paris slums; that they then tried to change the government through normal channels; and that their action was non-violent, based on moral guidelines and designed to awaken religious resonances...
Despite all its faults, there is no doubt that the film was made as an act of political conscience. It was produced, in fact, by Gregory Peck, who financed it entirely out of his own pocket. All the sadder, then, that The Trial of the Catonsville Nine is so misconceived...
When pigeons trained by the consistent method were switched to irregular reward, "they went to pieces," hitting their heads against the walls, flapping their wings, and pecking wildly at everything in sight. By contrast, birds trained on the intermittent system did not go wild when a correct peck failed to produce food. Instead, they stayed calm, continued to peck only at red, and soon were rewarded with the "deserved" snack...