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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The most
beloved Pulitzer Prize book now comes vividly alive on the
screen!
Director: Robert Mulligan, rated Approved
  Starring: Gregory
Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Paul
Fix, Robert Duvall, Frank Overton, John Megna, Rosemary Murphy,
Ruth White
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★★★
- perfect
"If you just learn a single
trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of
folks. You never really
understand a person until you consider
things from his point of view...
Until you climb inside of his
skin and walk around in it." – Atticus Finch
Why watch this?
It's a superb adaptation of the Pulitzer-winning classic novel.
Plot Summary:
Scout Finch is a young girl growing up in a racially segregated
Alabama town during the Great Depression. Her principled lawyer
father, Atticus, defends a black man falsely accused of raping a
white woman. Through the trial and interactions with their
mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley, Scout and her brother Jem
confront the complex realities of prejudice, injustice, and the
loss of childhood innocence.
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Dad's Preview:
This classic is a wonderful, yet somber message film about a racially motivated
trial in the deep Southern state of Alabama... in the
1930's. There is a
pivotal
moment in the film, at night, when an angry mob descends upon
the jail house, hell-bent on lynching the
black man on trial. Only Atticus Finch, the black man's
attorney, stands in their way, and he
seems no match for their anger, torches and guns. Suddenly Scout,
Mr. Finch's
8-year-old daughter, steps forward. What
this precocious young lady does next will have you in tears. |
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Brentwood
Prod.; Universal Pictures
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