4K UHD Review: To Kill A Mockingbird (60th Anniversary Edition)
November 1, 2022
A bonafide classic, Universal has given “To Kill a Mockingbird” the excellent 4K UHD release it deserves.
A bonafide classic, Universal has given “To Kill a Mockingbird” the excellent 4K UHD release it deserves.
For most filmgoers, Rod Steiger’s most memorable role is that of police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night released in 1967, for which he won an Oscar. Even so, Steiger’s best—and most nuanced—performance came three years earlier, in The Pawnbroker. Directed by Sidney Lumet, it was one of the first films to deal with the holocaust. Undeniably depressing, The Pawnbroker features
A glittering achievement in cinema due to its all black cast, Carmen Jones was adapted by director Otto Preminger from Oscar Hammerstein’s hit Broadway musical, which was itself based on George Bizet’s classic 19th century opera Carmen. Though slightly stilted in its execution, the still sultry and dramatic performance of Dorothy Dandridge, who became the first African American to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination
In January 2012, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring To Kill a Mockingbird to Blu-ray. Director Robert Mulligan’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, an Alabama lawyer who defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman. Finch’s legal efforts profoundly affect his two young children who are already struggling with the challenges of early adolescence. The winner of