More on Gregory Peck
Jun. 13th, 2003 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksI'm going to have to watch "To Kill A Mockingbird" again before I dump it in the box for shipping to Georgia.
Gregory Peck was never an A-list star in my eyes - sort of a second string Cary Grant. It didn't help that the movie I'll always associate him with is "Spellbound", which I saw when I was 12 and began my love affair with old movies, said movie being directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who used Grant several times in his movies. Sometimes, I squint and can almost see Grant in the Peck role.
But that aside, he always did workmanlike work at worst, and at best... I remember him as a stately Abraham Lincoln in "The Blue and the Grey", a weird mix of melancholy and roguish romantic lead in "Roman Holiday" and his absolute tour de force of course, Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird". I can't really describe how I felt when I saw that movie. It was one of shows that you come out of and go, "Why the hell don't they make movies like that anymore?"
I was never terribly impressed with "The Guns of Navarone" or "The Sea Wolves", but I did enjoy the latter. One day I'll get around to watching how he portrays one of my favorite literary heroes, Horatio Hornblower.
Here's to you, Greg. Say hi to Audrey and Ingrid for us.
Gregory Peck was never an A-list star in my eyes - sort of a second string Cary Grant. It didn't help that the movie I'll always associate him with is "Spellbound", which I saw when I was 12 and began my love affair with old movies, said movie being directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who used Grant several times in his movies. Sometimes, I squint and can almost see Grant in the Peck role.
But that aside, he always did workmanlike work at worst, and at best... I remember him as a stately Abraham Lincoln in "The Blue and the Grey", a weird mix of melancholy and roguish romantic lead in "Roman Holiday" and his absolute tour de force of course, Atticus Finch in "To Kill A Mockingbird". I can't really describe how I felt when I saw that movie. It was one of shows that you come out of and go, "Why the hell don't they make movies like that anymore?"
I was never terribly impressed with "The Guns of Navarone" or "The Sea Wolves", but I did enjoy the latter. One day I'll get around to watching how he portrays one of my favorite literary heroes, Horatio Hornblower.
Here's to you, Greg. Say hi to Audrey and Ingrid for us.
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Date: 2003-06-12 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-13 02:06 am (UTC)I don't think I still have the copy that I taped off the TV, or I'd offer to copy and send it to you. :(