Product Details

• Actors: Gregory Peck
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 7
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: November 4, 2008
• Run Time: 647 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001FBNQYA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,397 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An Academy Award winner and AFI Life Achievement Award recipient, Gregory Peck embodies all of the traits of a Hollywood leading man: distinguished, worldy and confident. Now, for the first time ever, 6 of his most memorable films are available together in The Gregory Peck Film Collection. See the beloved actor in some of his most daring roles in To Kill A Mockingbird, Cape Fear, Arabesque, Mirage, Captain Newman, M.D. and The World in His Arms. Featuring co-stars Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau and Robert Mitchum, The Gregory Peck Film Collection showcases one of the greatest actors of all time at his best.

To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck received an Academy Award for his brilliant portrayal of the courageous Atticus Finch, a white Southern lawyer who puts his career on the line to defend a black man.
Cape Fear
The worst nightmare of a small-town lawyer (Gregory Peck) comes true when a criminal (Robert Mitchum) he helped put in jail returns to stalk his beautiful young wife and teenage daughter.
Arabesque
Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in this high-speed, high-class romantic thriller about a professor who finds himself in a race for his life after deciphering a mysterious secret message.
Mirage
A bewildered accountant (Gregory Peck) struggles to recover his memory with the help of a detective (Walter Matthau) and understand why he’s surrounded by danger, deception and murder.
Captain Newman, M.D.
Gregory Peck leads an all-star cast (Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin) in a realistic look at life and love inside a military hospital's psychiatric ward during World War II.
The World in His Arms
A swaggering sea captain (Gregory Peck) sets sail - amid gale force winds and treacherous seas - on a harrowing race to rescue his lady love and beat his longtime rival (Anthony Quinn).

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Several Great Films, November 5, 2008

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Gary P. Cohen (Staten Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gregory Peck Film Collection (To Kill a Mockingbird / Cape Fear / Arabesque / Mirage / Captain Newman, M.D. / The World in His Arms) (DVD)

I'd like to comment of three of the lesser known films in this set:
1. Captain Newman, M.D. - a wonderful W.W.II comedy/drama with a great supporting cast including Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Larry Storch, James Gregory, Robert Duvall and in his academy-award nominated supporting role: Bobby Darin. One of my favorite films of the 1960s.
2. Mirage-a suspenseful black and white film-noir, filmed on location in New York co-starring the very attractive Diane Baker and Walter Matthau.
3. Arabesque-suspense thriller co-starring Sophia Loren. Directed by Stanley Donen, this was an attempt to replicate the success of Donen's previous thriller "Charade." While not as good as that classic, it is still good fun with a great score by Henry Mancini.
I can't wait to see these three films again.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 GREAT ones, 1 Favorite & 3 Unknowns, November 15, 2008

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Mark D. Prouse "Dustyart" (Riverdale (Bronx), NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Gregory Peck Film Collection (To Kill a Mockingbird / Cape Fear / Arabesque / Mirage / Captain Newman, M.D. / The World in His Arms) (DVD)

If you're a DVD movie collector and don't already have TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD or CAPE FEAR, this is a must, because it also contains one of the most stylish Bond-era thrillers ever made, ARABESQUE (in which Sophia Loren appears at her most stunningly beautiful), and three interesting and rarely shown films. The inclusion of the three lesser-known movies makes this a special and unpredictable collection.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a true classic, with fine acting, gorgeous black and white photography and a compelling musical score. Most of all, it's a fascinating and well-written story. CAPE FEAR may not approach MOCKINGBIRD as a classic, but it's certainly a minor one; much better than the gratuitously violent remake. This is my second favorite Robert Mitchum performance, behind his other great villainous role in NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. Gregory Peck is perfect as the guy trying desperately to protect his family. His wife, played by Polly Bergan, a good, too. it's too bad she made so few movies of any note, because she's not only attractive, but a superb actress.

ARABESQUE is one of my all-time personal favorite thrillers. It's been unavailable in the United States for a long time, and it's good to finally have it on DVD, and it's a gorgeous print, to boot. Sophia Loren's first entrance in the film, in a stylish, black evening ensemble, ranks with the most sexy moments in her career, and all she does is walk into the room! Her character is fun, because it's not clear for some time into ARABESQUE if she's with or against Mr. Peck's harried college professor. He's on the trail of a coded heiroglyph containing vital information regarding an assassination plot. This is one of Peck's looser, more humorous performances, too, as he seems to be having great fun, being chased by thugs and trying to crack the code, and he's got such good chemistry with Loren. His drug induced bicycle ride through oncoming traffic on a rainy night is a memorable scene, and SO sixties! The stylish art direction, psychedelic photographic effects and catchy score by Henry Mancini combine to make this a worthy followup to Donen's CHARADE, although many prefer the previous film. I find ARABESQUE equally enjoyable, with its flashes of witty humor and tongue-in-cheek political intrigue. It's all pretty fake, like a paste jewel, but it sparkles just the same, as if it were a real diamond, beginning with the wonderful opening theme and 007 Movie-like titles, designed by famous titlemeister, Maurice Binder.

Of the three other movies in this boxed set, I like CAPTAIN NEWMAN, M.D. the best. I don't know how I ever managed to miss this one. It's a fascinating, if somewhat dated, study of a psychiatric facility's military doctor treating traumatic mental injuries in young soldiers during war. Peck is very good in this, but the ones who steal the show are Tony Curtis as a wisecracking intern, Bobby Darin as a guilt-ridden airman recovering from a tragic plane crash that killed his buddy, and most of all, Eddie Albert (!) as an army colonel suffering from violent delusions. This could easily be Albert's finest moment. Angie Dickinson is the only weak link, miscast as an army nurse, although her acting does contain a few screen moments that feel emotionally genuine. Otherwise, she fails to make much of an impression (on me, anyway).

The other two films are entertaining fun, if not A-List. MIRAGE is a so-so mystery lifted above its routine script by excellent performances by Peck as a man with amnesia, and Diane Baker as another ambiguous female (is she with him or against him)?

The last movie is an okay swashbuckler with Ann Blyth as the love interest. She's pretty dreadful, and the costumes are way over the top, Hollywood travesties of historical research. Redder lips were never seen, and Blyth's odd mouth is all one can look at in some scenes. But Peck is fine as a barely moral seafaring rogue, and Anthony Quinn is great fun as his unabashedly immoral foe. This film is worth seeing once, but it's tied with MIRAGE as the weakest of the six movies here.

Because three of these movies are so good, and one of those is otherwise hard to get, I give this Five Stars, considering the other three films as icing on the cake.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arabesque....finally!, December 9, 2008

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RocketJay (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Gregory Peck Film Collection (To Kill a Mockingbird / Cape Fear / Arabesque / Mirage / Captain Newman, M.D. / The World in His Arms) (DVD)

I just received this collection of Gregory Peck films and while I already owned one of them(To Kill a Mockingbird) already, I just had to get this collection. Arabesque is one of my all time favorites and I have been waiting for years for it to be released on DVD. Very good transfer to DVD and well worth the cost.