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He is really one of my all-time favorites. I can't even begin trying to understand where I liked him more. Was it "ROman Holiday", or maybe "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Or the first movie I saw with him "Mackenna's Gold"? Or maybe the last one - "Moby Dick"?
I like him even in terrible screen version of MacLean's "Guns of Navarone".
I think it was at his best in the hand of the master..Sir Alfred...
In memoriam of G. Peck I had theurge to have a rererelook to John Huston´s " Mobby Dick "
Bradbury wrote the scribt partly and Levy ( Hitch English period composer ) the music.
Well the film did NOT improve over time, the colour washed out, the acting not first rate.
And G. Peck still not to the task of his role...He just not fit in.
Forget Charlton's politics for a moment: his competition w/Peck's character in "The Big Country" is classic. Peck makes passivism courageous---in a Western, for God's sake! One of his least appreciated roles, and one of the few Hollywood budget busters that was truly great (Burl Ives, Chuck Connors, Jean Simmons [she never looked more beautiful], Charles Bickford---what a cast!).
--My fav demo track for the non-believers--' Main Title Theme from the Big Country' Morton Gould /London Symphony Orchestra Varese Sarabande LP--it's an early Digital but stupendous dynamics and clarity,probably recorded before the 'Digi' hotshots started screwing up analog bigtime.Yep great movie.
reminiscing
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Mutiny on the Bounty (the foppish Marlon version).
I do not too much about Helston politic, only that he likes arms....I think that he certainly is an decent person..anyway he belong to the classic, and, I should have write...One of the last hero......
I am very sad about his dismise.
Mr. Peck is one of my favorite actors that I have experienced. I have wondered why he stands out to me. First he always was in quality films. Second there was a natural and honest acting style conveyed to me. Too bad we don't have much integrity today in the Hollywood film industry. Thanks for some great movies.
1. The journalist posing as a Jew to find out about anti-Semitism in 1947's "Gentlemen's Agreement."2. The angst-ridden CO in the great "Twelve O'Clock High."
3. His serio-comic turn in the all-time classic "Roman Holiday."
4. As Atticus Finch in the beautifully done "To Kill a Mockinbird."
Just a few of the classic performances by the justifiably legendary Gregory Peck. May he rest in peace.
His first film was with Hitch and Bergman, it was also the first US film for Sir Alfred.It was Spellbound.
Later he played in " The Paradine Case " .
And all the other roles.
it was certainly his first important one. A classic film, for sure.You know, I really liked his performance in "The Boys From Brazil" as Joseph Mengele. Talk about evil! It's not a great film but Peck's performance is great and he and Sir Larry were fine adversaries.
The only really bad movie Peck was in was, IMO, "MacArthur." Peck was fine but the movie stinks! A few of his movies weren't too good but, overall, he had more than his share of great roles in good-to-outstanding films.
He was certainly an actor of the first rank.
...like the unforgettable sadistic Lewt in "Duel in the Sun" (1946). (Erotic dynamite that makes today's explicit stuff look tame).Of his work he said:
"I have a handful of pictures that still play pretty well and that are worth keeping. I have a lot of pictures that were commercially successful and, you might say, artistically spotty. And then I have a handful of turkeys."
Though he was not the most brilliant or powerful actor, because of his craftsmanship it's hard to imagine Hollywood's golden era -- and celluloid mythology in general -- without him.
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One that is still loved in his home town near Baden Baden .
He was particulary fond of twins.
first film, an was always wondering from theater to movie first role...as a star, but as this thing has no great matter...thank you anyway for the precision !
He may have been a little " wooden " but it had a unique presence on the screen.
He belong to an unique past.
Movies then, were dreams who could come true.
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