To Kill A Mockingbird
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
August 21, 1918 in California, USA
20 July 1916
1 October 1906, Rolle Town, Bahamas
7 October 1952, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
February 23, 1902 in Canandaigua, New York, USA
4 February 1935, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
13 March 1911, East Saint Louis, Illinois, USA
10 March 1898, Lancashire, England, UK
15 June 1899, Panola, Illinois, USA
November 17, 1897 in Davis, West Virginia, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
12 March 1918, Babylon, New York, USA
February 28, 2016
A fine, moving, informative period piece for all ages, To Kill a Mockingbird is as much an abiding favourite as the book.August 19, 2015
Gregory Peck stays beautifully within the character of the bespectacled, widowed man, but with its episodes unevenly joined, the script is too repetitive and long.July 25, 2011
Harper Lee's child's-eye view of southern bigotry gains something in its translation to the screen by Robert Mulligan, who knows exactly where to place the camera to catch a child's subjective experience.February 27, 2012
I got so much more from this story as an adult, and it's a shame that my adolescent stubbornness kept me from the movie for so many years.June 24, 2006
This one is always just off the boil.July 25, 2011
To Kill a Mockingbird is a time capsule, preserving hopes and sentiments from a kinder, gentler, more naive America.November 04, 2016
Solid social conscience drama.December 22, 2008
To Kill A Mockingbird is a product of American realism, and it is a rare and worthy treasure.February 23, 2016
Peck's performance, in tortoiseshell glasses and a cream linen suit, is mesmerizing and serious.February 22, 2016
"To Kill a Mockingbird" relates the Cult of Childhood to the Negro Problem with disastrous results.February 03, 2015
As Mulligan so deftly demonstrates, the story is in the characters, their failings and fragility, their heroism and nobility of spirit.