Dude you are in the South. You must know something about Southern history including Jim Crow, a system in which structural racism was built into the very political, economic, cultural, and legal systems of the South. Euell simply embodies the racism of the system. I grew up in Texas in the 60s and 70s, a Texas in which segregation did not end until the 1970s (and where slaves were used as cowboys before Reconstruction) and we had the run of the streets in our neighbourhood down to the park. Though Dallas was a city of over 600,000 at the time I never went to school with a Black or a Hispanic and can’t even recall seeing a Black or a Hispanic before desegregation. By the way, Harper Lee and Truman Capote grew up in the same very tiny town and were friends (they later fell out). Lee helped Capote with In Cold Blood. Yes, point of view matters here.

Hi Madison, another wonderful classic film, I`m glad you enjoyed it. Gregory Peck is another of those Hollywood Greats, who never seemed to put a foot wrong in their choices of films. Off-hand I cannot think of one he was in that I did not like. If you are ever feeling nautical, especially in favour of the Age of Sail, I would like to recommend his 1951 film (Captain Horatio Hornblower). I think, you would like it. :)

Civilians don't understand the difference between soldiers and marines. We earned the title, and it's important to us.

I watched this movie when I was 11, it brought back emotions every time, I've read the story and almost every Dick novel, thanks for the memories.

Nice reaction video! There is a reason why the westerns' themes are relatable--the western is a product of the 20th Century and explores themes of the year the western was filmed and edited. One subtext of Shane was the Korean War and the Mark of Cain that Korean vets bore--that imaginary mark was an issue in the past and still is an issue today.

Madison, this is going up there with the best of your reactions. You got to the gist of this film, which uses the action genre to dramatize a deeper struggle going on with the protagonist. Your final take was as cool as Steve McQueen!

If you're a reader please consider revisiting the book. It is brilliant and covers a lot of things that couldn't make it into the movie. An excellent read. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961.

The black people had to use the balcony in the courtroom, which might sound "separate but equal" until you consider the fact that heat rises and this was the south in the summer. ------------------------------------------------------------- Did Tom even really try to run? ------------------------------------------------------------- Mary Badham, the girl who played Scout did a Twilight Zone a couple years later but they screwed up the audio and had all her dialog dubbed-over by June Foray, the voice actress who did Rocky the flying squirrel (as in Rocky & Bullwinkle). That went about as cringey as you might imagine.

Great reaction, Madison. I read a scary article a while back about great white sharks that had been tagged. Turns out they spend a lot of time near swimming beaches. Even though they rarely attack, they've been closely watching human swimmers for decades. Gave me the shivers.

Great movie! Definitely a hard one to react to.

The real Doc and Chavez lived until old age.

Gregory Peck was amazing actor! Don't know if you saw it but the scarlet and the black is another great movie with Gregory Peck.

My Mississippi Grandfather talked us that Blue Jays Carry Sand for the Devil. So you shoot them or you Don't say anything bad around them. 😂😂 I still even to this Day I don't say back things around Bluejays.

Love you watched this. Great movie

34:57 "look at the lighting in this scene; it's like a painting." This was not the originally planned lighting. There was a smaller gazebo on location but any of the interior shots of it are on set in the studio. The gazebo on location was actually quite a bit smaller and the 16 Going On 17 dance number needed more space. It also allowed for more control of the lighting and gels and all that filming tech stuff. Anyway, the panels on the ceiling of the gazebo got quite hot from the lights and as a result started making rather rude noises. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer got the giggles during this romantic and emotional scene and as soon as they got themselves together the noises would start again. So the solution was to shoot it in silhouette where they could still sing along to the track but any giggles and lip twitches could be hidden in the shadows.

I gained a lot of incite from your reaction. Beauty and brains on this channel.

Blade Runner 2049. Good sequel.

There were a lot of very long movies in this era and like plays, ballets, and classical concerts they had intermissions. Get up, stretch your legs, go to the bathroom, grab a snack...then come back for part 2. There are are some more recent (subject to interpretation) movies that could have used an intermission.

There's a 'special place in hades' for false witnesses in capital cases.

It was brilliant wasn't it? 🙂 Loved how much you enjoyed it.

In the book, Atticus discovers afterwards that one of the jurors was a relative of the Cunninghams who tried to lynch Tom at the jail, and on the jury he fought for a "not guilty" for hours before caving in to the majority. That night at the jail, Atticus earned the respect of the Cunningham family and showed them what courage was.

If a tree branch is cut and isn't painted or sealed, it can kill the tree. This is more true for branches 2-3in or larger.

I've never liked it as much as other people do.

Now she is a rotten lay

Do not like this chick

34:06 The sign of someone who enjoyed their meal so, it was actually considered rather polite. If you think about it, one of the reasons people burp is because of eating quickly. Of course you you like something, you are likely to eat it more quickly. Burping was considered polite even if it was accidentally in someone's face however, doing it intentionally into people faces was considered rude.

I’ve seen this movie many times as a kid. The ham costume scene was terrifying. Awesome movie. Tears!

Billy did not die in the first Young Guns.

I'm 66 so i read the book in 1972. Dill, was supposed to be the authors neighbor, Truman Capote.

I read this book in the 7th grade. It's the book that got me into reading books and took me into a wonderful world. I only read non-fiction after this book.

Looks like you really didn't understand what was going on in this movie. Yes Viggo died because he was stabed in the artery that runs alongside your neck to your brain. Most humans will bleed out.

This is set in NW florida

One of my all time favorite movies

In 1930s Alabama, a lone man stands up for due process of law, both personally and professionally.

This is an accurate picture of the 21st century South as it looks at itself. Never mind that it is a 1960 book set in the 1930s. It FEELS real, doesn't it? Movies about the South are courtroom dramas. Why? Will the South always be on trial? Will it be pushed to electing Donald Trump?

You make a big mistake if you try to equate Western treatment of POWs with Japanese treatment of POWs. And the Burmese Railway Construction was up there/down there with the Bataan Death March and Kamikazes deliberately singling out American Hospital ships. The Japanese viewed POWs as less than human. Saito would probably have used Nicholson as a live bayonet practice dummy in front of the other British POWs, then worked his way thru the rest of the officers. Or maybe Nicholson would have simply been nailed to the nearest wooden wall and disembowelled while still alive. I detest movies about the Pacific war that equate Western and Japanese values of human life. We completely ignore the Tokyo War Crimes Trials and the death rate at Japanese POW camps of 40% and we equate our internment of Japanese-Americans for the duration with Japanese treatment of Chinese civilians and the Nazi and Soviet Death/Labor camps. Why? Because postwar Japan is and was.a.bulwark against Red China and North Korea. And so we rewrite the pop and cultural history of the Pacific War to such an extent that some say we forced Japanese attacks against Pearl Harbor, the Phillipines and Wake Island. Suddenly Peal Harbor is our fault.We need to apologize to the Japanese for shooting back.

Normally, a judge thanks a jury. This time, the judge just walked out in disgust.

It was 400 miles from the Anderson ranch to Belle Fouche.

Great review there @MAdison, and wonderful job by your editor too. As others say This was Greg Peck's best actor oscar and what a year it was for that category, Peter O'toole for Lawrence of Arabia, Burt lancaster , and Jack lemmon for Days of wine & roses. Jack would have won in any other year as it is a masterpiece of a couple and their woes. I hope you see it sometime as NO one I follow has done that film from 1962

Madison: a movie you must watch, because you love ‘classics', and it is a ‘classic', because it stars Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab), and because it is a great movie, is: “Moby Dick" (1956), another great movie based on a great classic novel. Written (screenplay) by Ray Bradbury and John Huston, directed by John Huston. It's definitely worth two hours of your time to watch this incedible movie, I am sure you will not be disappointed.

Way back when i was a kid when we'd visit my grandparent's in the country my cousin's & i would walk up & down the dirt road at night trying to scare each other. We were city kids so it was pretty exciting. I was raised in Houston & we ran the streets all day on our bikes, even in the big city back then kids were safe to roam freely. Now i'd be scared to drive a car through that neighborhood.

Thank you so much for watching what is probably my favorite movie of all time (although Mr Smith Goes to Washington is right up there too). I cry every time Scout says she sees Boo Radley... when Atticus says "Thank you for my children" ... and when the adult Scout says "He gave us (list of items) and our lives". And fun fact: Young Scout (Mary Badham) is currently performing in the road company of "To Kill a Mockingbird," in which she plays the old, mean woman sitting on her porch. Richard Thomas (best known as "John-Boy Walton" on TV) does a great job as Atticus. He's got big shoes to fill. If you get a chance, I urge you to see the play.

When you get back to reacting to Westerns, you should check out "The Big Country" with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, and Chuck Connors. Story about a Seaman Captain (Peck) that falls for a woman and comes to her huge ranch to marry her and is introduced to Western villains. His preference to keep his many abilities, talents, and experience hidden to people who are ignorant of them puts him in the middle of a water rights feud. It is one of my favorite classic Western dramas... beautiful country and photography, great memorable musical score.

I used to be upset that Duvall didn't win the Emmy, but now I realize it would have been a big disservice to Tommy Lee Jones because both actors were equally brilliant. Duvall the more flamboyant, but Jones much more understated. Still outraged that Lonesome Dove didn't win the Miniseries category though. It was clear they were just trying to go against what was expected.