To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird

Year:
Duration:
129 min
Genres:
Drama
IMDB rate:
8.4
Director:
Robert Mulligan
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1963-03-16
Filming Locations: Courthouse Square, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $2,000,000
Gross: $13,129,846 (USA) ( 1963)
Cast
Actor
Character
Phillip Alford
Phillip Alford
To Kill a Mockingbird
Bobby Barber
Bobby Barber
To Kill a Mockingbird
John Megna
John Megna
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gregory Peck
Atticus Finch
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
James Anderson
Bob Ewell
Alice Ghostley
Aunt Stephanie Crawford
Robert Duvall
Boo Radley
William Windom
Mr. Gilmer - Prosecutor
Crahan Denton
Walter Cunningham Sr.
Richard Hale
Nathan Radley
Mary Badham
Scout
R.L. Armstrong
Man (uncredited)
Eddie Baker
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Danny Borzage
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
John Breen
Juror (uncredited)
Jess Cavin
Juror (uncredited)
David Crawford
David Robinson (uncredited)
Frank Ellis
Juror (uncredited)
Jamie Forster
Hiram Townsend - Courthouse Steps (uncredited)
Charles Fredericks
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Herman Hack
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Jester Hairston
Spence Robinson - Tom's Father (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Kim Hamilton
Helen Robinson - Tom's Wife (uncredited)
Kim Hector
Cecil Jacobs (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Dick Johnstone
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
Townsman (uncredited)
Nancy Marshall
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
Charles Morton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Paulene Myers
Jesse - Dubose Servant Girl (uncredited)
Noble "Kid" Chissell
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Gerry Okuneff
Townsman (uncredited)
Charles Perry
Juror (uncredited)
Joe Ploski
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Hugh Sanders
Dr. Reynolds
Barry Seltzer
Schoolboy (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
George Sowards
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Ray Spiker
Townsman (uncredited)
Kim Stanley
Scout as an Adult - Narrator
Jay Sullivan
Court Reporter (uncredited)
Kelly Thordsen
Burly Mob Member (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Juror (uncredited)
George Tracy
Townsman (uncredited)
Danny Truppi
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Max Wagner
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Bill Walker
Reverend Sykes
Joe Walls
Bailiff (uncredited)
Dan White
Mob Leader (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Chalky Williams
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Film debut of Alice Ghostley.
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Art directors Alexander Golitzen and Henry Bumstead had an entire reconstruction of the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, built on the Universal backlot at a cost of $225,000. The set contained more than 30 buildings. It would have cost at least $100,000 more had Golitzen and Bumstead not learned of some Southern-style housing about to be demolished to make way for a new Los Angeles freeway. They bought a dozen of them and had them brought to the studio. Such efforts resulted in the two winning the Oscar for Best Art Direction the following year.
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Brock Peters delivered Gregory Peck's eulogy on the day of his funeral and burial, June 16, 2003. Peck defended Peters in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
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Goofs
While lying unconscious in his bed after Boo Radley carries him back home, Jem's head is seen in several different positions.
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After Atticus shoots the dog and rides away in Heck's car, the children watch him go. Scout's hair has a side part, but in the next shot she has her usual full bangs.
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In the very beginning of the film, the adult Scout's narrates, "Maycomb was a tired, old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it." Moments later, she goes on to say that "Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself" in clear reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address. Roosevelt, however, did not deliver this speech until March 4, 1933.
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Quotes
Scout: Jem is up in a tree, he said he won't come down until you agree to play football with the Methodists.
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Atticus Finch: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Atticus Finch: Do you know what a compromise is?
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Faq
Q
What is an "entailmant", which Scout refers to when she says to Mr. Cunningham on the police station steps, "entailments are bad"?
A
An entailment is a situation where the owner of property has limited power over his own property. The technical legal definition is "to abridge, settle, or limit succession to real property; an estate whose succession is limited to certain people rather than being passed to all heirs." In real property, a fee tail is the conveyance of land subject to certain limitations or restrictions, namely, that it may only descend to certain specified heirs. In the case of the film, Scout is referring to what Mr. Cunningham owes Atticus for doing some legal work. At the beginning of the movie he brings to their back porch a bag of hickory nuts as part payment for this work. He says to tell Attitcus it's part payment on his entailment. So, in the jail house scene, Scout is just asking how it's getting along in payment.
Q
What was wrong with Boo Radley?
A
Neighbor Arthur 'Boo' Radley's (Robert Duvall) situation was not explored, either in the movie or the book. Some viewers say that Boo is mentally impaired or at least thought so by his family and base that idea on the fact that he stabbed a family member with a pair of scissors. Others point out that the scissors incident was just a rumor and that Arthur Radley was perfectly normal as a kid, just got in with a bad crowd, got arrested, and his extremely religious parents vowed to never let him leave the house again.
Q
What is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' about?
A
Told through the adult eyes of Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch (voice of Kim Stanley), six-year old tomboy Scout (Mary Badham) relates the story of her father, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) and his attempts to defend Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a young black man accused of raping and beating white Mayella Ewell (Collin Wilcox Paxton) in Maycomb, Alabama, a racially divided town in the 1930s.
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Photos from cast
Phillip Alford Bobby Barber Steve Condit John Megna
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