1962 movie, based on Harper Lee's novel, about Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird marked the film debuts of Robert Duvall, William Windom and Alice Ghostley.
Web Pages
Video Products
To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition, 31 Jan 2012
To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition), 29 Apr 1998
Reviews
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
by Jon Osborne, Miss Liberty's Guide to Film and Video, 2001
by Jon Osborne, Miss Liberty's Guide to Film and Video, 2001
Social tolerance is the theme here, as events in a southern Depression town are used to show a young girl's development of a live-and-let-live attitude toward those unlike herself. ... [She] is told that 'It's a sin to kill a mockingbird,' because mockingbirds do no harm to others. By the end of the film, she has transferred tha concept to human relations: doing harm to harmless others, no matter how different they might be, is likewise wrong. This is a theme that libertarians will certainly like, and it has as well a suggestion of the nonagression principle.
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