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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Robert Mulligan
- 1963-03-16
Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Scout is the narrator and one of the protagonists of the film. Scout is fiercely intelligent and, according to Jem, has “been reading since she was born.”. Scout is also a tomboy who embarks on rebellious adventures with Jem and Dill, prefers to wear overalls instead of dresses, and gets into fights with boys.
- Robert Mulligan
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- Production notes and credits
- Cast
- Academy Award nominations (* denotes win)
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 in the National Film Registry.
(Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
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To Kill a Mockingbird recounts the childhood experiences of six-year-old “Scout” Finch (played by Mary Badham) during the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. When her widowed father (Gregory Peck), a principled and respected attorney, defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman, Scout and her brother witness the horrors of racism. They also learn valuable lessons about courage, compassion, tolerance, and prejudice.
Peck’s Academy Award-winning performance as Atticus Finch became an enduring part of cinema history; in 2003 his character was voted the top film hero in a poll conducted by the American Film Institute. Badham, as the tomboyish Scout, earned praise in her first screen role. Scout’s friend, the imaginative, storytelling “Dill,” was patterned after Lee’s childhood friend, the writer Truman Capote. Robert Duvall made his film debut as “Boo” Radley, a reclusive neighbour.
•Studio: Universal
•Director: Robert Mulligan
•Producer: Alan J. Pakula
•Writer: Horton Foote
•Music: Elmer Bernstein
•Running time: 129 minutes
•Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch)
•Mary Badham (“Scout” Finch)
•Phillip Alford (“Jem” Finch)
•Robert Duvall (“Boo” Radley)
•John Megna (“Dill” Harris)
•Brock Peters (Tom Robinson)
•Picture
•Director
•Cinematography (black and white)
•Art direction–set decoration (black and white)*
•Screenplay, adapted*
•Lead actor* (Gregory Peck)
- Lee Pfeiffer
To Kill A Mockingbird (film) Summary. After a stylized opening credit sequence, a camera descends on the languid, small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. An adult version of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch narrates the film’s events, which are told from six-year-old Scout’s point of view in the early 1930s, at the peak of the Great Depression.
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Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, as an adult, is the narrator of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. She comments on how she could not understand something at the time but now can appreciate it. She gets into trouble with Miss Caroline, her teacher because she is expected to learn reading and writing her way.
