![]() Their characterizations are true tributes to the professional skill of producer Alan Pakula, who selected them from thousands of hopeful young aspirants, and Robert Mulligan, who directed them with great skill.īut it is the unalterable truth that every facet of To Kill a Mockingbird, however fleeting, contributes to its golden worth. Mary Badham and Phillip Alford, whisked to Hollywood from Birmingham, Alabama, to co-star with Peck, do just that in To Kill a Mockingbird. It seems impossible that two children, complete strangers to a motion picture set and without an ounce of dramatic experience, could overwhelm an audience with their brilliant performances. Scenes involving his summation speech to a prejudiced jury have surely gone down in dramatic records as one of the most memorable courtroom scenes ever filmed. He is the bulwark upon which the towering strength of To Kill a Mockingbird has been built. Gregory Peck is the giant of a man, a giant, incidentally, of non-aggressive power who dominates the story. When Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), African-American farmworker, is accused by hard-drinking farmer Bob Ewell (James Anderson) of assaulting his daughter, Mayella (Collin Wilcox), Atticus is assigned to defend Tom. Dubose (Ruth White) and the "haunted house" that has, kept mentally disturbed Boo Radley hidden for years. A youthful neighborhood visitor, Dill (John Megna) is enthralled by Maycomb as Scout and Jem show him the eccentric Mrs. Theirs is a contented home, helped immeasurably by housekeeper Capurnia (Estelle Evans). In Maycomb, Alabama, during the 30's, small-town lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) strives to minimize the traits of hatred and prejudice in the minds of his motherless children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Phillip Alford). The film version's popularity has been endless. More than 14,000,000 book-lovers have already thrilled to the beauty of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird' a classic of American literature. ![]() Segregation was still not against the law and the Freedom riders hadn't happened and downtown Birmingham hadn't exploded. ![]() America in July of 1960 was still a very deeply divided place.
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