Proclaimed as one of the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time by the American Film Institute, To Kill A Mockingbird is now available as a 2-disc set. Hollywood icon Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Academy Award for his brilliant portrayal of the courageous but understated hero Atticus Finch. The film, based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction. captured the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. To Kill A Mockingbird boasts Robert Duvall's screen debut as Boo Radley and Mary Badham's unforgettable Oscar-nomintaed performance as Miss Jean Louise "Scout" Finch. Watch it and remember why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

STARRING:

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Collin Wilcox

SCREENWRITER: Horton Foote

DIRECTOR: Robert Mulligan

RUNNING TIME: 130 minutes

STUDIO: Universal

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: A

• This movie won 3 Academy Awards: Best Actor (Gregory Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay (Horton Foote), and Best Art Direction. It was also nomintaed for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Mulligan), and Best Supporting Actress (Mary Badham).
• While Gregory Peck has stated numerous times this was his this movie was highlight of his career, the studios originaly wanted to cast Rock Hudson as Atticus Finch.
• Robert Duvall made his screen debut in this movie as Boo Radley. For six weeks he stayed completly out of the sun and also died his hair blonde since his character was supposed to have been locked up all of his life.
• Phillip Alford who played Jem Finch did not want to go to the auditions for this movie, his mother had to convince him to go by telling him that he would get to miss a hlad a day of school.
• This book is based off the novel by Harper Lee, and the main character in the film shares Lee's maiden name: Finch.
• The American Film Institute rated Atticus Finch as the number one hero character of the last 100 years, and included the film in the coveted top 100 movies.
• Mary Badham who played Scout reportdly screwed up her lines on nearly every take that took place at the dinner table, causing Phillip Alford to have to eat bites of the same food over and over again. He apparently got so upset by this that in the scene where he rolls her in the tire he purposly rolled her into an equiptment truck.