Tuesday 29 May 2012

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Robert Mulligan
William Windom, Robert Duvall, James Anderson, Brock Peters, Paul Fix, Richard Hale, Alice Ghostley, Gregory Peck, Crahan Denton, Ruth White, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Estelle Evans, Collin Wilcox Paxton
16 March 1963 (USA)
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1961. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town ?

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