To Kill a Mockingbird
(1962)To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film. There are records that the movie, whose original name is "Killing a Mockingbird", was also screened in Turkey under the name "Sinister Bird". Written by Horton Foote and adapted from Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel of the same name, the film is directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Gregory Peck, John Megna and Frank Overton. The film is produced by Alan J. Pakula, with music by Elmer Bernstein. The film won a Golden Globe Award for Original Score. The character "Dill" in the movie (played by John Megna in the movie) is inspired by Harper Lee's childhood friend, Truman Capote. This movie is Robert Duvall's debut. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, at the height of racism, he was a principled and courageous man who stood up for a black man in Alabama, one of the southern states of the United States. This black-and-white film, which tells the story of a lawyer (Atticus Finch: Gregory Peck) who is jailed for rape and goes up against prejudiced and intolerant townspeople to defend him, has made as much noise as the novel it's on. based. . The film won three Academy Awards and was nominated in eight categories: Best Actor, Best Art Direction, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the "Gary Cooper Award" was presented to Robert Mulligan at the Cannes Film Festival. To Kill a Mockingbird was selected as one of the "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" films in the United States and has been selected for preservation in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 25th on its list of the "Best Movies of All Time". To Kill a Mockingbird was ranked first in the "25 Best Court Movies" poll published in the August 2008 issue of American Bar Association Magazine. It is followed by 12 Angry Men (1957) and My Cousin Vinnie (1992).
