Boo Radley

There may be less smooching around in summer, eating parents out of house and home, and seeming to grow by the hour.

Fewer weeks to spend getting into harmless scrapes or, as in To Kill a Mockingbird, trying to make Boo Radley come out.

Holidays will have to evolve.

For decades, British hordes have occupied stretches of Southern Europe in July and August.

This is the film debut of both of the child actors.

It is also the on-screen debut of Robert Duvall as Boo Radley.

oh

did you not realize that was him or no

i completely did not i've seen this movie before did not realize that was him yeah wow they

put his name is in he gets his own title card at the start of the movie which is kind of crazy considering the restrictions around who would get credits and who would this obviously he's going to get credited because he's a significant part of the movie less on screen and more in how they talk about him but he had been filmed for two days on broadway He was an established stage actor already by this point and they brought him in to play Boo Radley and he just becomes one of the greatest actors in movie history.

I

would have thought Scout was going to become the greatest actor in movie history.

And they very quickly run afoul of Frank Burns, who is played by Robert Duvall, which is crazy, Alan, because I had no idea that Robert Duvall was in this movie before I saw it.

It's like discovering that he's Boo Radley in Kill a Mockingbird.

Did he ever have hair?

What's interesting here is the dynamic between these guys, because Hawkeye and Duke are your rebels.

We have a cast of completely unforgettable characters.

The tomboy scout, played perfectly by Jean-Louis Finch, her brother Jem, the mysterious reclusive Boo Radley, played by Robert Duvall in his film debut.

Oh, I always forget that was Robert Duvall's debut.

It was.

Oh, that's so smart.

We're constantly looking up at the adults.

He uses lighting to cast long, exaggerated shadows on the porch when the kids are looking for Boo Radley, making a quiet suburban street feel like a gothic horror setting.

Because that is exactly how a child's imagination processes the unknown.

Exactly.

The narrative begins in that space of childhood imagination where the primary concerns are local legends and neighborhood boundaries.

But the architecture of the novel hinges on a sharp, devastating pivot to a deeply public systemic crisis.

Hmm.

No, they're not.

They're fucking Boo Radley.

He's an idiot.

Also have a stubborn, independent streak inherited from their terrier ancestors.

Sure.

So we pulled out all the stops, cast a quality performer to create a character and haunt the wedding.

Sort of roaming the balcony during dinner, photobombing in a full Phantom of the Opera mask.

And that morning, I got a text, can the ghost take off his mask to eat? And I said...

So Alison had a very, very memorable final Jeopardy response.

Go ahead, Dan.

This tie game comes down to Final Jeopardy and 1960s novel characters.

Here's the clue.

This was a long time ago.

She was a single mom and the house she was renting, the yard was just like Boo Radley levels of overgrown.

So we decided we were going to get out there and we were going to do some yard work together.

So she went to this place and rent it like a tiller, I think is what it's called, Lamar?