To Kill a Mockingbird

Genre: social drama (in black and white)

With: Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), Phillip Alford (Jem), Mary Badham (Scout), Brock Peters (Tom Robinson)

Director: Robert Mulligan

Release: 1962

Studio: Universal International Pictures, Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions

Rating: PG

MBiS score: 8.4/10

A Lesson about Tolerance and Kangaroo Courts

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Story-line: in the Deep South during the Depression, a widowed lawyer tries to raise his children respectably while handling a racially-charged rape case.

Pluses: Horton Foote’s screenplay based on the celebrated Harper Lee novel, a strong cast anchored by Gregory Peck, quality direction. 

Minuses: none whatsoever.

Comments: even today, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD remains a classic film about good, evil, fear and misconceptions. As Atticus reminds his little Jem, ‟There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”

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