Synopsis
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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Cast
- Mary BadhamScout Finch
- Gregory PeckAtticus Finch
- Phillip AlfordJem
- John MegnaDill Harris
- Frank OvertonSheriff Heck Tate
- Brock PetersTom Robinson
- Rosemary MurphyMaudie Atkinson
- Ruth WhiteMrs. Dubose
- Estelle EvansCalpurnia
- Paul FixJudge Taylor
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
To Kill A Mockingbird is a product of American realism, and it is a rare and worthy treasure. - 100
Empire
Storytelling doesn't get much better than this. - 100
Variety
To Kill a Mockingbird is a major film achievement, a significant, captivating and memorable picture that ranks with the best of recent years. - 100
The Telegraph
As Mulligan so deftly demonstrates, the story is in the characters, their failings and fragility, their heroism and nobility of spirit. It's in the depiction of heart-breaking cruelty and heart-warming humanity. It's in the innocence of a child's world overshadowed by the evil that adults do. - 100
Time
One of the year's most fetching and affecting pictures. - 100
ReelViews
To Kill a Mockingbird is a faithful adaptation of one of the 20th century's most important American works of literature. It is also a masterpiece in its own right. This is one of those rare productions where everything is in place - a superior script, a perfect cast, and a director who has a clear vision and achieves what he sets out to do. - 100
Boston Globe
There is not only artistry in the development of the story - there is beauty, sympathy and emotional appeal in almost every scene. - 90
The New York Times
Their charming enactments of a father and his children in that close relationship that can occur at only one brief period are worth all the footage of the film.
