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To Kill A Mockingbird
on DVD (1962)
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| Starring: |
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall, John Megna, William Windom, Paul Fix, Alice Ghostley, Rosemary Murphy |
| Director: |
Robert Mulligan |
| Studio: |
UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time: |
246 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released: |
03/07/2006
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Brief synopsis of To Kill A Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote), and Best Actor (Gregory Peck), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a timeless film packed with beautiful scenes and meaningful life lessons. The story is told from the vantage point of a young girl nicknamed Scout (Mary Badham) whose widowed white father Atticus Finch (Peck), an attorney, decides on principle to defend a black man (Brock Peters) charged with raping a poor white woman. But the bigoted townspeople would rather lynch the accused than try him, and they make life hellish for the lawyer, his daughter, and his son Jem (Philip Alford). While their father is in the throes of the trial, his bright, inquisitive children learn a hard and unforgettable lesson in justice, morality, and prejudice, part of which requires overcoming an unfounded fear of their mysterious neighbour Boo Radley (Robert Duvall).
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
This is a beautifully crafted and faithful screen adaptation (by playwright Horton Foote, who won an Oscar) of the now-classic Harper Lee novel about a lawyer in the Deep South and the effect of a rape trial on his children. Gregory Peck won the best actor Oscar as Atticus Finch, but in truth he's ill-cast — if ever a role was meant for Henry Fonda it was this one. Robert Duvall, making his screen debut as the disturbed Boo Radley, is excellent, as are the well-cast children (Phillip Alford and Mary Badham, sister of film-maker John Badham), and Robert Mulligan's direction is quietly impressive (even if the film's a shade overlong). The book was once considered strong stuff, but is now taught in schools everywhere.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Familiar dollops of social conscience, very well presented with a child interest and excellent atmosphere, but a mite overlong.
Time Out
Tackling Harper Lee's novel, Stanley Kramer would have hit us over the head with a hammer, so perhaps we can be...
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