Posted on 12/21/2008 7:00:02 AM PST by Borges
Edited on 12/21/2008 3:40:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird," died Saturday at his home in Lyme. He was 83.
Mulligan had heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal.
The director began working in live television in New York in the early 1950s and won an Emmy Award for the TV movie "The Moon and Sixpence" in 1960. His first film, "Fear Strikes Out," was released in 1957 and told the story of mentally ill baseball player Jimmy Piersall, played by Anthony Perkins. Mulligan directed 19 more films, including "Summer of '42," "The Other" and "Same Time, Next Year" before capping his career in 1991 with "Man in the Moon," featuring actress Reese Witherspoon in her movie debut.
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RIP Mr. Mulligan.
Your work here is done.
Kind of odd that two of the most enduring books (fiction) of the last century were written by women who never wrote another one. Many may think that is just so much horse poop, but I think there is a pony in there somewhere.
Great movie. Started Robert Duvall’s career as Boo Radley.
Rumor has it Truman Capote really wrote most of To Kill A Mockingbird because he was so grateful to Harper Lee for being kind to him as a child. The character of Dill was based on Capote.
He made some fine movies. RIP.
That would explain her lack of subsequent books.
Man in the Moon.
Superb little film.
Upon publication in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was a beautifully written, historic novel urging the South to get over racism.
Unfortunately liberals have repeated its Southern white-bashing theme in countless propagandistic books and movies since then.
Get over it, liberals!!
I have read that the publishing world knew that Harper Lee wrote most of Capote ‘s famous book “ In Cold Blood “ . She did all the research and he was on a years long bender during the entire period .
RIP. One of our great directors.
They just don’t make quality movies like “Mockingbird” anymore, do they?
Mel Gibson and “The Passion of The Christ” are an exception.
I hate to say this, but I always considered TKAM to be an overrated film, starring a very wooden Gregory Peck. I never quite “got” what was so great about either the movie or the book. Who would name their child “Scout” anyway (other than Bruce Willis, who took it from the movie).
Wow, you didn’t like it ? Well, I guess we can’t like ‘em all. I thought Peck was quite good in it, though I actually have a preference for him in the original “Cape Fear”, made just shortly before Mockingbird (playing a slightly less respectable attorney).
White guilt and political correctness, nothing more. The selection of Atticus Finch as "the greatest hero in 100 years of film history" is unmitigated horse puckey.
Well, I liked the film, but I wouldn’t go that far with “greatest hero.”
I’ve never been bowled over by it either. Mulligan certainly made better films (The Other, Summer of 42).
And Sam Fuller made films in the 1950s that were much more complex statements about racism in America.
Did you ever see Mankiewicz’s “No Way Out,” with Poitier as the black doctor and Widmark as the white gang leader who curses him as he gets treated? Very strong stuff for 1950. Inspired by the 1943 Detroit riots, btw.
I think Brians song was one of the best movies ever
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