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25 December 1962 (USA) moreTagline:
The most beloved and widely read Pulitzer Prize Winner now comes vividly alive on the screen! morePlot:
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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A Remarkably Simple and Simply Remarkable Masterpiece! moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)Gregory Peck | ... | Atticus Finch | |
John Megna | ... | Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris | |
Frank Overton | ... | Sheriff Heck Tate | |
Rosemary Murphy | ... | Maudie Atkinson | |
Ruth White | ... | Mrs. Dubose | |
Brock Peters | ... | Tom Robinson | |
Estelle Evans | ... | Calpurnia | |
Paul Fix | ... | Judge Taylor | |
Collin Wilcox Paxton | ... | Mayella Violet Ewell (as Collin Wilcox) | |
James Anderson | ... | Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell | |
Alice Ghostley | ... | Aunt Stephanie Crawford | |
Robert Duvall | ... | Arthur 'Boo' Radley | |
William Windom | ... | Mr. Gilmer, Prosecutor | |
Crahan Denton | ... | Walter Cunningham Sr. | |
Richard Hale | ... | Nathan Radley |
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129 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #20267) | UK:A (original rating) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | UK:PG (video rating) | Iceland:12 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:Not Rated (DVD) | Australia:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | South Korea:12 | Sweden:15 | West Germany:12MOVIEmeter:
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Anachronisms: At the beginning of the film, the pennies in the cigar box are dated circa 1962, while the story is set in the year 1932. moreQuotes:
Jem: There goes the meanest man that ever took a breath of life.Dill Harris: Why is he the meanest man?
Jem: Well, for one thing, he has a boy named Boo that he keeps chained to a bed in the house over yonder. Boo only comes out at night when you're asleep and it's pitch-dark. When you wake up at night, you can hear him. Once I heard him scratchin' on our screen door, but he was gone by the time Atticus got there.
Dill Harris: I wonder what he does in there? I wonder what he looks like?
Jem: Well, judgin' from his tracks, he's about six and a half feet tall. He eats raw squirrels and all the cats he can catch. There's a long, jagged scar that runs all the way across his face. His teeth are yella and rotten. His eyes are popped. And he drools most of the time.
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Very rarely, it happens that movies are made that are very simple in expression but possess monumental appeals and significant life lessons in a style only of the kind of their own that, we can't expect even. This fact is truthfully exemplified in this movie. It's not just a movie or even just a promising story in general, but all it portray's is "Innocence". A girl's recollection of her childhood days which are still at their full bloom in her mind, depicting the innocence of juvenile as well as as adult minds, a period where mostly immature minds become curious to the racial bigotry and sometimes mature minds become its prey and a time when harsh realities of life like intolerance, hatreds, prejudice and adversities of society gradually dawn upon them.
Atticus Finch ( Gregory Peck ) is an absolutely Gentleman Lawyer whose wife has passed away and he has a son and a daughter. A Black man Tom Robinson is wrongly alleged of raping a poor white woman. In fact, he a victim of white woman's effort to hide her guilt by targeting his innocence and utilizing favors of racial attitude of unsocial society towards Negros. Finch decides to defend him on his principles realizing that the narrow minded society will turn against him and so it happened and townspeople started making his life agonizing. The whole story is masterfully out shined by the ingenuousness, purity and innocence of his children with with a unique inspirational interaction with their father.
Boo Readly who lives in the town is mentally retarded and is sidelined by the society. He is a mark of fear and curiosity for children because he is different from others. But he is the one who marks the ultimate climax of this emotionally crafted masterpiece.
It's a must see movie for all ages in all times because it gives many priceless emotional and touching lessons for those who are sincere and perceptive.
A Remarkably Simple and Simply Remarkanble Masterpiece!!!