To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

	Directed by: Robert Mulligan	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Drep ikke en sangfugl RUNNING TIME 129 minutes
	Produced by: Alan J. Pakula
	Written by (based on the novel by Harper Lee): Horton Foote

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Atticus Finch	Gregory Peck
Scout	Mary Badham
Jem	Philip Alford
Charles Baker "Dill" Harris	John Megna	-
Sheriff Heck Tate	Frank Overton	-
Miss Maudie Atkinson	Rosemary Murphy	-
Mrs. Dubose	Ruth White	-
Tom Robinson	Brock Peters	-
Calpurnia	Estelle Evans	-
Judge John Taylor	Paul Fix	-
Mayella Violet Ewell	Collin Wilcox	-
Robert E. Lee "Bob" Ewell	James Anderson	-
Miss Stephanie Crawford	Alice Ghostley	-
Arthur "Boo" Radley	Robert Duvall

Review

Quintessential coming-of-age-drama based on Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Told from the perspective of the son and daughter of Atticus Finch, an idealistic lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, the film takes a puritan, almost self-righteous look at this society’s attitudes towards race, inequality and prejudice. It’s a message movie with a lesson so obvious and self-evident that it’s hard to fathom it was – and can still be – relevant. It’s also a well-told and quaint tale about the loss of childhood innocence and subsequent portal into adult life. This combination made it a darling of contemporary critics and audiences alike. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Philip Alford deliver sympathetic performances as the father and children, respectively. And Robert Duvall is brilliant as Boo Radley in his feature film debut.