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To kill a mockingbird${}^1$ (1962) is a much-loved, critically-acclaimed, classic trial film. It exhibits an exceptional achievement in acting, a portrayal of childhood innocence (told from Scout Finch’s matured adult understanding), and a progressive, enlightened 1960s message about racial prejudice, violence, moral tolerance and dignified courage.

The screenplay was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Horton Foote from Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel (1), an account of her small-town Southern life in Monroeville, Alabama, of its setting of racial unrest and of her father and also attorney Amasa Lee. The poor Southern town of deteriorating homes was authentically re-created on a Universal Studios’ set. Released in the early 1960s, the timely film reflected the state of deep racial conflicts and social injustice that existed in the South.

The film begins by portraying the innocence and world of play of a tomboyish six year-old girl named Scout (Mary Badham) and her ten year-old brother Jem (Phillip Alford). Set in a small town in the 1930s, the story focuses on their widower father, scrupulously honest and highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by the actor Gregory Peck. The children also fantasize about a boogeyman - the reclusive "village idiot" - who inhabits a mysterious house in their neighborhood. They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father’s unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), falsely accused of attacking a Southern white woman. Although racism dooms the accused man, a prejudiced adult vengefully attacks the children on a dark night. They are unexpectedly delivered from real harm in the film’s climax by the recluse "Boo" Radley (Robert Duvall in his film debut).

To kill a mockingbird won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Art Direction.

(filmsite.org)

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