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Titolo originale: To Kill a Mockingbird
Regia: Robert Mulligan
Anno: 1962
Origine: United States of America
Generi: Dramma
Tag: right and justice | rape | sibling relationship | based on novel or book | court case | court | isolation | becoming an adult | falsely accused | arbitrary law | alabama | socially deprived family | defence | tree house | farm worker | intolerance | exclusion | trial | racism | injustice | hostile | kids | 1930s | courtroom drama | desperate | malicious | based on young adult novel | dramatic | compassionate | empathetic |
Cast: Mary Badham Gregory Peck Phillip Alford John Megna Frank Overton Brock Peters Rosemary Murphy Ruth White Estelle Evans Paul Fix Collin Wilcox Paxton James Anderson Alice Ghostley Robert Duvall William Windom Crahan Denton Richard Hale R. L. Armstrong Walter Bacon Eddie Baker Bobby Barber John Barton Audrey Betz Danny Borzage John Breen Jess Cavin Noble 'Kid' Chissell Steve Condit David Crawford Frank Ellis Charles Fredericks Herman Hack Jester Hairston Chuck Hamilton Kim Hamilton Kim Hector Michael Jeffers Dick Johnstone Chester Jones Colin Kenny Ethan Laidlaw Nancy Marshall Clyde McLeod Charles Morton Paulene Myers William H. O'Brien Charles Perry Joe Ploski Hugh Sanders Barry Seltzer Edward C. Short Mabel Smaney Eddie Smith Walter Smith Cap Somers George Sowards Ray Spiker Kim Stanley Kelly Thordsen Arthur Tovey George Tracy Sailor Vincent Max Wagner Bill Walker Joe Walls Dan White Guy Wilkerson Chalky Williams Raoul Freeman

Anni '30. Un avvocato progressista, che esercita in una piccola cittadina dell'america sudista, difende un nero dall'accusa di violenza carnale su una bianca. I problemi di razzismo e di falsa morale non tarderanno a presentarsi.

Errori

(at around 2h 8 mins) The law books disappear from the mantelpiece when Scout returns from walking [...]	D
(at around 43 mins) When Atticus shoots the mad dog, it is obvious its hind legs are jerked from un [...]	D
In the final scene, the narrator says "He (Atticus) would be in Jem's room all night and he would b [...]	D
When Bob Ewell spits at Atticus, right after he does this there is no spit on Atticus's face, in cl [...]	D
(at around 1h 58 mins) While lying unconscious in his bed after Boo Radley carries him back home, J [...]	D
At 84'40m in, Gregory Peck is standing with his hands clasped in front of him. This cuts to a shot [...]	D
With the story set in 1932, the "ham" costume Mary Badham (Scout) wore was clearly made from fiberg [...]	D
The Crayola crayons shown in the film's opening, and elsewhere in the film, with their black bands, [...]	D
(at around 55 mins) In a closeup of Mr. Radley troweling grout into the knothole after Scout and Je [...]	D
During the opening credits, a box containing what the children would eventually find over time in t [...]	D
While Atticus is trying to reason with his son trying to coax Jem out of the tree house, his left h [...]	D
(at around 1h 38 mins) While Atticus is giving his closing arguments standing before the jury, the [...]	D
Atticus defines a compromise as "an agreement reached by mutual consent". All agreements are reache [...]	D
Mayella Ewell's hair alternates between neatly brushed and messy and back again between shots when [...]	D
When Peck shoots the dog with the high powered rifle, the gun does not recoil (kick).	D
At the end of the movie, Scout mentions the gifts Boo Radley has given them over the years, includi [...]	D
The "melon" Crayola crayon shown in the opening sequence was not introduced until 1949. The film is [...]	D
In the background when Atticus kills the "mad" dog is a large hill, or mountain. No such geography [...]	D
(at around 1h 12 mins) During the courtroom scene, there is a closeup of Atticus seated at his tabl [...]	D
(at around 1h 29 mins) When Mr. Gilmer gets up to cross examine Tom Robinson, he walks past the sea [...]	D
The PF Flyers worn by Jem and Scout were not introduced until 1937.	D
It's a well known legal tip that lawyers should never talk down to a jury. However Atticus's use of [...]	D
(at around 1h 1 min) When Atticus is sitting in front of the courthouse door to protect Tom Robinso [...]	D
Just before Atticus shoots the mad dog, he pushes his glasses up onto his forehead. They are shown [...]	D
(at around 44 mins) The license plate on Atticus Finch's car changes. At first it is 709-865 as Att [...]	D
(at around 48 mins) When Atticus carries the sleeping Scout down the hall to her bedroom, after ret [...]	D
(at around 1h 42 mins) While Atticus gets his papers together in the courtroom after the verdict, t [...]	D
When Jem jumps out of the tire swing, his back is facing us. The camera cuts during his jump to the [...]	D
(at around 16 mins) When sitting on the porch with the Judge, Atticus is sitting on the porch swing [...]	D
(at around 44 mins) Scout's hair changes from slightly parted to not parted while standing next to [...]	D
During Atticus Finch's cross-examination of Mayella Ewell, he breaks off, has defendant Tom Robinso [...]	D
(at around 14 mins) When Scout asks to see Atticus' watch, she stretches her right arm up while she [...]	D
(at around 55 mins) When Jem shows Scout all of the things he's collected in the cigar box, the cur [...]	D
Tom Robinson cannot use his left arm because the muscles were injured in an accident when he was a [...]	D
In the very beginning of the film, the adult Scout narrates, "Maycomb was a tired, old town, even i [...]	D
(at around 30 mins) When Scout and Jem are debating Jem going back to retrieve his trousers from Bo [...]	D
When Jem and Scout leave the tree with the knothole in it when Mr. Radley is filling in the knothol [...]	D
At the beginning of the film, a penny in the cigar box dated 1960 is shown in the lower right corne [...]	D
(at around 11 mins) When the children are shown waiting for Atticus to come home, Jem is lying in t [...]	D
(at around 50 mins) In the long shot, when Jem discovers the spelling medal left in the old tree, i [...]	D
(at around 1h 2 mins) When the rednecks from Old Sarum arrive at the jail alleyway to lynch Tom Rob [...]	D
During the opening credits, when a marble is rolling, the camera and members of the camera crew are [...]	D
(at around 5 mins) Scout steps up with both feet to stand on the tire swing to look up into the tre [...]	D
Atticus stated, "Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." Later Scout misquotes h [...]	D
(at around 1h 12 mins) When Bob Ewell testifies he says he saw Tom Robinson running out the front d [...]	D
(at around 44 mins) Similar to her "close-up" conversation with Jem about retrieving his breeches, [...]	D
When Tom Robinson is driven past the Finch home, Atticus tells Jem that he is being brought back to [...]	D
(at around 13 mins) After Atticus speaks with Mrs. Dubose at her porch, Scout, Jem, and Dill walk a [...]	D
Directly after the scene where Jem and Scout are attacked while walking home through the woods, as [...]	D
(at around 1h 57 mins) After the attack on Jem and Scout, Boo carries Jem towards the house and eve [...]	D
After the mad dog is shot and killed, All of the characters are standing near the sheriff's car. At [...]	D
(at around 1h 13 mins) While Atticus is questioning Mr. Ewell in the courtroom, Mr. Ewell has his l [...]	D
(at around 1h 13 mins) When Bob Ewell is on the witness stand and Atticus asks him if he ran for a [...]	D