To Kill A Mockingbird

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A story of prejudice and injustice set in a racially-intolerant Alabama of the 1930s. Peck plays the lawyer who stirs up hostility when he agrees to defend a black man accused of rape. Based on the book by Harper Lee.

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Review by DM on 7th April 2004

Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird remains to this day a seminal piece of literature. Unusually for such adaptations, this screen version is, if anything, just as good, if not better.

Gregory Peck is Atticus Finch, a widower, lawyer and man of honour, faced with the seemingly impossible task of defending a black man against a charge of raping a white woman. Even though Atticus illustrates in court that the defendant is patently not guilty of the crime levelled against him, such is the level of bigotry, ignorance and downright cowardice among the local townsfolk that their guilty verdict is virtually pre-ordained.

Peck turns in a performance of power and empathy and some of his courtroom scenes are some of the most memorable of their kind and intensely moving. Mary Badham (who, remarkably, had no prior acting experience) is also excellent as Atticus' young daughter Jean Louise (aka 'Scout'), through whose eyes we see events unfold. Scout's daily exploits with her brother Jem and their relationship with their father are also at the heart of the story, but fundamentally this is a scathing and all-too-real examination of racial tension and intolerance in early-20th Century America

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