To Kill a Mockingbird News

Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird lives up to the standards set by the source material, thanks in part to Robert Mulligan's direction and Gregory Peck's outstanding performance of Atticus Finch.

Win a pair of tickets to the Gala Tasting Reception, February 23 at the George Brown College's Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts! >> ENTER Drama 129 minutes Directed by Robert Mulligan Written by Harper Lee, Horton Foote Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, Rosemary Murphy, Paul Fix, ... (more)

Whether it's John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men or the occasional Curious George, many of us that were once students got to read a book in school at any grade or age that had an impact on them.

The timeless classic still has the special features from the prior DVD and laserdisc edition, but also includes a new HD featurette about Universal's more recent restoration work.

A half-century hasn't dulled the impact of To Kill a Mockingbird's moving exploration of racial injustice, social intolerance and lost innocence.

Miss Maudie was a proper Southern lady and lived in a time where "fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently and drank cool water." "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.

It's quite a week for vintage-film fans as an array of favorites earn Blu-ray upgrades, including Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning turn, and classics from directors Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen and Billy Wilder.

I distinctly remember reading To Kill a Mockingbird in ninth grade English. From the way we were introduced to it and the opening questions one has about how Jem got hurt straight through to the final page, I was transfixed by it.

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It's been half a century since the debut of the monumental Southern drama "To Kill a Mockingbird." To mark the occasion, the beloved 1962 film is making its Blu-ray debut.

GLENN CLOSE "Albert Nobbs" Why she'll win: Widely considered long overdue after five previous noms, Close garners industry affection for championing this personal, heartfelt project through 20 years of difficult development.

This week's new DVD releases include the Blu-ray releases of a film classic and sci-fi TV series, and a dark tale starring Ryan Gosling.

Best extra: A 90-minute standard-def documentary, "Fearful Symmetry: The Making of 'To Kill a Mockingbird,'" carried over from three previous DVDs, includes interviews from the cast and residents of Monroeville, Ala., birthplace of author Harper Lee CELEBRATING YOUR 100th anniversary is a BIG DEAL! And Universal Studios has decided to pull out all ... (more)

Experience one of the most significant milestones in film history like never before with *To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition*. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch - the Academy AwardA -winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time.

Hey folks, Harry here with this week's DVD & Blu-Ray column. It is a bit late, but that PBS WOODY ALLEN: A DOCUMENTARY dvd that's coming out soon, got me completely wrapped up in it last night.

In some ways, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is the ultimate coming-of-age tale. It's about, in part, the loss of innocence, the importance of justiceA and the realization, through the eyes of a child,A thatA the world can be a very ugly place.

In celebration of the film's half-century anniversary, Universal Studios is issuing a remastered version of the landmark movie.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, one of the screen's most beloved and critically acclaimed films, celebrates its 50th anniversary with a commemorative Limited Edition Collector's Series Blu-ray Combo Pack as well as on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment on January 31, 2012.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a film that came out 50 years ago and was immediately seen as a classic and was one of the biggest winners at the Oscars that year.

January 31, 2012, marks the 50th Anniversary DVD/Blu-ray release of the screen version of Harper Lee 's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird .