To kill a mockingbird

Resource Information

The work To kill a mockingbird represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

To kill a mockingbird

Statement of responsibility

Universal-International presentation of a Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions picture ; directed by Robert Mulligan ; produced by Alan J. Pakula ; screenplay by Horton Foote

Creator

• To kill a mockingbird (Motion picture : 1962)

Contributor

• Brentwood Productions, Inc
• Harlan, Russell, 1903-1974
• Ghostley, Alice, 1926-2007
• Lee, Harper
• Megna, John
• Foote, Horton
• Mulligan, Robert, 1925-2008
• Fix, Paul, 1901-1983
• Evans, Estelle, 1906-1985
• Murphy, Rosemary
• Odell, Rosemary
• Hale, Richard
• Overton, Frank, 1918-1967
• Duvall, Robert
• Pakula, Alan J., 1928-1998
• Denton, Crahan, 1914-1966
• Peck, Cecilia
• Bernstein, Elmer
• Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003
• Badham, Mary, 1952-
• Peters, Brock
• Stanley, Kim
• Anderson, James, 1921-1969
• Stell, Aaron
• Alford, Phillip
• White, Ruth, 1914-1969
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Wilcox Paxton, Collin, 1935-2009
• Pakula-Mulligan Productions
• Windom, William, 1923-2012

Actor

• Peters, Brock
• Hale, Richard
• Murphy, Rosemary
• Anderson, James, 1921-1969
• Badham, Mary, 1952-
• Evans, Estelle, 1906-1985
• Duvall, Robert
• Fix, Paul, 1901-1983
• Megna, John
• Denton, Crahan, 1914-1966
• Ghostley, Alice, 1926-2007
• Overton, Frank, 1918-1967
• Windom, William, 1923-2012
• Wilcox Paxton, Collin, 1935-2009
• White, Ruth, 1914-1969
• Alford, Phillip
• Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003

Composer

• Bernstein, Elmer

Costume designer

• Odell, Rosemary

Director

• Mulligan, Robert, 1925-2008

Director of photography

• Harlan, Russell, 1903-1974

Editor

• Stell, Aaron

Narrator

• Stanley, Kim

Producer

• Pakula, Alan J., 1928-1998

Screenwriter

• Foote, Horton

Subject

• Social conditions
• Southern States
• Southern States -- Race relations -- Drama
• Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama
• To kill a mockingbird (Lee, Harper)
• Trials (Rape)
• Trials (Rape) -- Southern States -- Drama
• Violación -- Teatro
• 1900-1999
• Closed captioning
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Fathers and daughters
• Fathers and daughters -- Southern States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Films de fiction
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films pour personnes handicapées auditives
• Finch, Atticus, (Fictitious character)
• Finch, Atticus, (Fictitious character) -- Drama
• Girls
• Girls -- Southern States -- Drama
• Lee, Harper -- Film adaptations
• Padre e hija -- Teatro
• Procesos por delitos contra la persona -- Teatro
• Race discrimination
• Race discrimination -- Southern States -- Drama
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- Southern States -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Closed captioning
• DVD-Video discs
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Films de fiction
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films pour personnes handicapées auditives
• Teatro

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

In a small Alabama town in the thirties, a softly-spoken lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black sharecropper against a charge of raping a white woman

Awards note

• Academy Awards (1963): Best Actor in a Leading Role, Gregory Peck; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White; Alexander Golitzen, Henry Bumstead, Oliver Emert; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Horton Foote.
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains Award (Atticus Finch)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Russell Harlan; music, Elmer Bernstein ; film editor, Aaron Stell ; costumes, Rosemary Odell

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

• Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing
• English or French dialogue; Spanish or French subtitles

PerformerNote

• Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), John Megna (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), 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) ; introducing Mary Badham (Scout), Philip Alford (Jem)
• Narrated by Kim Stanley (Scout as an adult)

Runtime

130

Technique

live action