| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
| Director | Robert Mulligan |
| Writer | Harper Lee, Horton Foote |
| Lead Actor | Gregory Peck |
| Cast | Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton |
| Genre | Crime, Drama |
| Release Date | March 16, 1963 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h 9m(129 min) |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 8.3/10 |
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In one telling scene in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout (Mary Badham), the young daughter of Atticus (Gregory Peck), is admiring the antique pocket watch that her father will someday give to his son. She asks with longing and envy, “What will you give me?” Her father responds, “I don’t have anything else of value.”
But the audience already knows that he will be leaving her a gift beyond reckoning the life lessons he teaches her daily through both word and example. These include an uncompromising sense of fairness, integrity, concern for others and belief in the dignity of every person.
The film’s story is told in the first person through the naïve eyes of Scout, a feisty tomboy who watches her father confront racial prejudice and legal corruption at great personal risk. Atticus is a lawyer in a small town in the Deep South during the Depression. He’s asked by the sheriff to defend a black prisoner who has been accused of assaulting an ignorant white woman in her rural home.
In a parallel story line, Scout and her brother set out to see how close they can get to Boo Radley (Robert Duvall in his first role), a mythic unseen neighbor who is whispered to be a murderer.What they discover in their quest, however, is that small gifts appear mysteriously in the knothole of a large tree fronting his ramshackle house. From the credits on, this story is about small treasures that will be kept by Scout and her brother, and which, one day, will be sorted like the memories they treasure of their father and the lessons he taught them.
Atticus will require great courage in his defense of Tom Robinson (Brock Peters). The lawyer must first physically confront Tom’s accuser, who leads a mob to lynch the prisoner. And then, when Atticus proceeds to trial, his children’s lives are threatened.
The parallel story lines come together when Boo Radley saves Scout’s life, which requires the shy retarded man to emerge in the night from the safety of his house.
To Kill a Mockingbird offers great lessons about fidelity to conscience and respect for everyone. “You never know someone,”Atticus tells Scout, “until you step inside their skin and walk around a little.” We are blessed to walk around a little in the skin of Atticus Finch.
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