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Tracy Letts

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1997 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I did not.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Directed by David Miller.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's David Miller's first movie after Lonely Are the Brave, which is an absolutely great movie.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Yes.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's Gregory Peck's first movie after To Kill a Mockingbird, and it's Robert Duvall's first movie after To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Did Gregory Peck – I don't know.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

He's also kind of being asked to do something very similar to Boo Radley.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

The movie is about an army mental hospital, and Gregory Peck is a psychiatrist who's running this hospital, and so it follows the –

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

A few case studies of some of these guys who come back from battle.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

It's pretty bad in that the attitude toward mental illness has really changed a lot since this movie was made.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

And so Eddie Albert and Bobby Darin, who were both good actors, are asked to perform a kind of mental illness that feels very fatalistic.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

theatrical and ham bone Duvall escaped some of that because his character is suffering from PTSD or shell shock probably they called it at the time and so he's non-verbal so again it's kind of a similarity to Boo Radley he's this non-verbal character who's come back from battle he's good in the film Gregory Peck is great in the film the movie does not hold up

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Let me, uh, throw in some more TV after this.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

The, the Lieutenant craft suspense theater, three episodes of the outer limits, three episodes of the fugitive voyage to the bottom of the sea.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

I did watch his outer limits episode called the chameleon, uh,

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Well, he did three Outer Limits episodes, but he did one called The Chameleon, notable because teleplay by Robert Towne.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Yeah.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Wonderful.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

Directed by Mark Lawrence.

The Big Picture
The Robert Duvall Hall of Fame

who was a bastard who sang like a bird in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.