Tracy Letts
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Podcast Appearances
Directed by David Miller.
It's David Miller's first movie after Lonely Are the Brave, which is an absolutely great movie.
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.
Did Gregory Peck β I don't know.
He's also kind of being asked to do something very similar to Boo Radley.
The movie is about an army mental hospital, and Gregory Peck is a psychiatrist who's running this hospital, and so it follows the β
A few case studies of some of these guys who come back from battle.
It's pretty bad in that the attitude toward mental illness has really changed a lot since this movie was made.
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.
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
Let me, uh, throw in some more TV after this.
The, the Lieutenant craft suspense theater, three episodes of the outer limits, three episodes of the fugitive voyage to the bottom of the sea.
I did watch his outer limits episode called the chameleon, uh,
Well, he did three Outer Limits episodes, but he did one called The Chameleon, notable because teleplay by Robert Towne.
Directed by Mark Lawrence.
who was a bastard who sang like a bird in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.