Robert Mulligan direction ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, a story of white a Southern attorney who fearlessly defends a black man accused of raping a white woman during the depression-era will be screened at 6 pm on August 25 at the American Center, Colombo-3.
The 1962 movie which won three Oscars together with a number of awards is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made.
A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood.
As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defence of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbour Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his brilliant, almost completely nonverbal screen debut). |
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