To Kill A Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)

What a wonderful movie! I don't believe that there are people who don't like this brilliant movie. It is so... touching. There are so many articles about this film, about acting (Gregory Peck, all three children and Robert Duvall on his film debut as "Boo Radley", strange silent guy and village eccentric, personification of child fears and curiosity are excellent, , great script (based on the first and, unfortunately, last book of Harper Lee - adaptation by Horton Foote) and Oscar-nominated black and white photography by Russell Harlan, but for me, actress Collin Wilcox who played Mayella Ewell, primitive white trash girl girl who accused poor black man for raping stealed the show). I've never seen before and later that somebody so conceiveably played role of histeric person and didn't fall into over-acting in any single moment- it is more impressive that this was her film debut. And the end scenes of meeting of Atticus's daughter and Boo Radley...
And what makes this film a real classic is the fact that this movie is still fresh and not-dated in any element, especially in the way of treating racial relations and bias. The impact of "Mockingbird" was not only in film world, but also in music - one British rock group named themselves Boo Radleys, strong, righteous and unshakeable lawyer Atticus Finch became a greatest hero of the last 100 years of American Film Institute etc.
So, if you've not seen this movie in your entire life yet, go find him somewhere! He will definitely enhance your life!
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