January 16, 2009

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

The most beloved Pulitzer Prize book now comes vividly alive on the screen!


Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 7:00 pm

Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a



Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. 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 ?





Directed by Robert Mulligan
Written by Harper Lee (novel) & Horton Foote (screenplay)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language
: English
Subtitles: English



Cast

Gregory Peck ... Atticus Finch

John Megna ... Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris

Frank Overton ... Sheriff Heck Tate

Rosemary Murphy ... Maudie Atkinson

Ruth White ... Mrs. Dubose

Brock Peters ... Tom Robinson

Estelle Evans ... Calpurnia

Paul Fix ... Judge Taylor

Collin Wilcox Paxton ... Mayella Violet Ewell (as Collin Wilcox)

James Anderson ... Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell

Alice Ghostley ... Aunt Stephanie Crawford

Robert Duvall ... Arthur 'Boo' Radley

William Windom ... Mr. Gilmer, Prosecutor

Crahan Denton ... Walter Cunningham Sr.

Richard Hale ... Nathan Radley


Movie Trailer



More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/

No comments: