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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American coming-of-age legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham, with Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, James Anderson, and Brock Peters in supporting roles.
To Kill a Mockingbird: Directed by Robert Mulligan. With Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy. Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) is a much-loved, critically-acclaimed, classic trial film. It exhibits a dramatic tour-de-force of acting, a portrayal of childhood innocence (told from a matured adult understanding), and a progressive, enlightened 60s message about racial prejudice, violence, moral tolerance and dignified courage.
Jul 19, 2024 · To Kill a Mockingbird, American dramatic film, released in 1962, that was adapted from Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel that addressed racism and injustice. Deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to America’s film heritage, the Library of Congress honoured it with inclusion.
- Lee Pfeiffer
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Gregory Peck is at his noble, Oscar-winning best as a Depression-era lawyer in small-town Alabama who defends a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.
With America struggling to find its feet during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch, a widowed father and fiercely-principled lawyer, takes the knotty case of young Black worker Tom Robinson to defend him in court. But as the news of Mayella Ewell's sexual assault spreads like wildfire, public opinion turns against Finch.