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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Drama/Mystery
Robert Mulligan
Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, Brock Peters
Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Award for Best Writing,
Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture
Actor - Drama, Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Score
To Kill a Mockingbird is a movie based on Harper Lee’s classic novel
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This movie
has won multiple Academy Awards and Golden Globes and is still renowned as a classic film to
this day
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Scout Finch lives with her older brother, Jem, and her father Atticus in the town of
Maycomb, Alabama, during the thick of the Great Depression
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Atticus is
a widowed lawyer
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Atticus is appointed to defend a black man named Tom Robinson
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Atticus takes the case, and Jem and Scout are teased by their
schoolmates because of it
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During the trial it is agreed upon that Tom came to Mayella Ewell’s home to help her
chop up a chifforobe
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Atticus points out that Tom has a crippled left arm
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Atticus also speculates that Bob
Ewell, Mayella’s dad, is left handed, suggesting that Bob was the one who attacked Mayella
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Tom also testifies that he did not hurt Mayella, but that she actually
kissed him
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’ Since Maycomb is a
town that views black people as lesser to white people, Tom’s compassion towards Mayella is
unheard of
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When Atticus finally gets home, he is
told by the sheriff that Tom was killed during his prison transfer
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Atticus and Jem go to
Tom Robinson’s family home and tell them the news of Tom’s untimely death
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Mr
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Some time passes after the trial, and Scout and Jem are preparing for a Halloween
pageant hosted by their school
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When Scout and Jem are
preparing to leave, Scout cannot find her dress or shoes, so she walks home in her ham costume
in the dark
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Jem is knocked unconscious and Scout’s costume protects
her from the man, but she cannot see
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Scout sees a man carrying Jem into her house
and quickly follows, running to Atticus as soon as she sees him
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Later the sheriff arrives at Scout’s house and asks her what
happens, and she sees Boo Radley standing in the corner of Jem’s bedroom
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It is also revealed
that Bob Ewell was found dead at the crime scene with a knife in his chest
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Instead, Sheriff Tate says that Bob
Ewell “fell on his knife
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While To Kill a Mockingbird is a very interesting and engaging movie, there are both
historical accuracies and inaccuracies in this film
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For instance, there is a scene at the beginning of the film where
Atticus accepts hickory nuts and other types of food as payment for his services from a farmer
named Mr
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Since there was so little money going around at the time, trading and
bartering was common instead of payments for goods and services
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The Tom Robinson case also based off real events that occurred in the 1930s, such
as the Scottsboro trials, a rape case where a group of black men were accused of rape
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For
instance, Maycomb, Alabama, the town that Scout and Jem live in, is not a real place at all
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While To Kill a
Mockingbird seems like a story that could happen, it’s historical fiction because it is, in fact,
fictional
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Despite the
fact that Maycomb is not actually a real town, the setting proves to be very similar to other small
Alabama towns of it’s time
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I believe that this movie could be a bit difficult to watch without reading
the book as well, so I also recommend that you read Parker Lee's classic novel, To Kill a
Mockingbird, before you watch the film

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