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...Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize novel comes off almost better on the screen than on the page. Gregory Peck is wise and warm, and three children-Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna-are so convincingly rambunctious that they hardly seem to be acting...
...bottle of sleeping pills which her physician had prescribed. As the program began, Charlene rose from her bed, went to the bathroom. She returned to lie down on the bed while Marina sat near by. The youngster watched the show to the end, saw Gregory Peck, looking just like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, make a touching little acceptance speech. When Marina looked at her stepmother, she realized that something was wrong. But it was too late. Charlene had swallowed all 30 sleeping pills. Ghighi arrived home from his dinner in time to accompany the unconscious Charlene...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize novel comes off even better on the screen than on the page. Gregory Peck is wise and warm, and three children -Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna-are so convincingly rambunctious that they hardly seem to be acting...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 8--The Motion Picture Academy has made the following awards for 1962: Best Actor, Gregory Peck, for his role in "To kill a Mockingbird"; Best Actress, Anne Bancroft, for "The Miracle Worker"; Best Film, "Lawrence of Arabia"; Best Supporting Actor, Ed Begley, "Sweet Bird of Youth"; Best Supporting Actress, Patty Duke, "The Miracle Worker...
...barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there is not a note of music throughout the picture-reaches a deafening crescendo of screeching, whistling, chattering, flapping cacophony...