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Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, Ruth White, Kim Stanley. To Kill A Mockingbird: Monroe County Heritage Museum and Courthouse, Monroeville, Alabama | Photograph: Monroe County Heritage Museum. Gregory Peck takes home Best Actor Oscar as Deep South lawyer Atticus Finch, who has his work cut out defending Tom Robinson ...
Parents Need to Know. Parents need to know that To Kill a Mockingbird is the award-winning 1962 film adaptation of the classic Harper Lee novel. Its powerful evocation of racism and bigotry in 1930s Alabama remains relevant today, as do the themes of empathy, compassion, and justice sought by Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck).
To Kill a Mockingbird was adapted into a 1962 film directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Mary Badham as Scout, and Robert Duvall as Boo Radley. The film was both popular and critically successful. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three, including a Best Actor Award for Gregory Peck.
When Jem and Scout receive air-rifles, Atticus tells them "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." It is Miss Maudie that explains to Scout that "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us ...
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is ...
Critics reviews. A widowed lawyer is appointed to defend a black man against false rape charges in Depression-era Alabama, stirring up deep racial tensions in the small town. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee.
The movie version is a classic of American cinema: Many people, including Harper Lee, the author of the novel, consider the film To Kill a Mockingbird to be highly faithful to the novel. In fact, after seeing the film, many think that the dialogue was taken word for word from the novel. “This is simply not so,” says the novel’s author ...
