To Kill a Mockingbird

Matt Roush says...

Capping a distinguished career, Gregory Peck won a Best Actor Oscar for the iconic role of soft-spoken yet fearlessly principled Southern lawyer and wise single dad Atticus Finch in Robert Mulligan‘s moving 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It’s hard to imagine a more fitting way to kick off TCM’s monthlong “Star of the Month” tribute to Peck, with movies airing each Friday in May. Following Mockingbird, Peck stars opposite Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1945 psychological thriller Spellbound (10:15/9:15c) and plays a journalist who adopts a Jewish persona to investigate antisemitism in 1947’s Oscar-winning Best Picture Gentleman’s Agreement (12:15 am/11:15c).

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