Gregory Peck Hits Again

This is the month of Gregory Peck's 13th death anniversary. Before knowing that, I was able to add few more movies into my Gregory Peck collection in this month after the Mockingbird. Isn't it a wonderful coincidence that the anniversary held near to the date you had the thought to extend the collection?

The reason for the Mockingbird at the first place was the old hit, Guns of Naverone which was once telecasted in tv long long time back, and the Bollywood's Lakshya, where Hrithik was a soldier boy. The first time I watched Lakshya, also somewhat long time back, the faded memories of Guns of Naverone risen up because of remembrance in similar titbits among the two. Majorly the rock climbing approach. With holding that memories to check whether Lakshya was a partial copycat, the time flew away. And that's how Guns of Naverone was occupied by me after sometime later. I mean who would waste resources to watch a 50s 60s old Hollywood hit without no good reason. :P

And this 'To Kill a Mockingbird' was there next to the Guns of Naverone, and suddenly clicked in the faded mind it was the adaptation of a stupid translation of a book I read sometimes back. And that stupidity was mainly because of this English name and not being familiar with killing mocking birds and poor translation of bringing the concept of it into Sinhala.(stupidness was there only before watching the movie and now I own the translation. Hope to get the Harper Lee's  Pulitzer winning original one and the 2nd part of it 'Go Set a Watchman' which was published after her death but written before Mockingbird) And it's a good enough reason to check the movie how it go with the translation. And you know what happened thereafter, if you read that post 60s movie marathon.

Then thereafter 'Roman Holiday' came up to the collection with few more. For today I can say I'm a proud owner of his top 5 movies with two others. So it includes, Twelve O'Clock High, Spellbound; among the popular and The Yearling and Moby Dick among the others. Hope I could find the movie where the locations were used as Ceylon. And you know that's before Bridge on the River Qwai or Indiana Jones. And there was a story when he was in Ceylon aka Sri Lanka for the movie, he caught up with a flu and drink inguru koththamalli and praised that quick home remedy publicly in the press conference, and was just like a slap on the face for the Colombian aunty ladies who were too much westernized those days.