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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 | kids | 1930s | courtroom drama | desperate | 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 B [...] D
(at around 43 mins) When Atticus shoots the mad dog, it is obvious its hind legs are jerked from und [...] D
In the final scene, the narrator says "He (Atticus) would be in Jem's room all night and he would be [...] D
When Bob Ewell spits at Atticus, right after he does this there is no spit on Atticus's face, in cle [...] D
(at around 1h 58 mins) While lying unconscious in his bed after Boo Radley carries him back home, Je [...] D
At 84'40m in, Gregory Peck is standing with his hands clasped in front of him. This cuts to a shot 8 [...] D
With the story set in 1932, the "ham" costume Mary Badham (Scout) wore was clearly made from fibergl [...] 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 Jem [...] D
During the opening credits, a box containing what the children would eventually find over time in th [...] D
While Atticus is trying to reason with his son trying to coax Jem out of the tree house, his left ha [...] D
(at around 1h 38 mins) While Atticus is giving his closing arguments standing before the jury, the c [...] D
Atticus defines a compromise as "an agreement reached by mutual consent". All agreements are reached [...] D
Mayella Ewell's hair alternates between neatly brushed and messy and back again between shots when s [...] 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, includin [...] 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 e [...] D
(at around 1h 12 mins) During the courtroom scene, there is a closeup of Atticus seated at his table [...] D
(at around 1h 29 mins) When Mr. Gilmer gets up to cross examine Tom Robinson, he walks past the seat [...] 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 Robinson [...] D
Just before Atticus shoots the mad dog, he pushes his glasses up onto his forehead. They are shown s [...] D
(at around 44 mins) The license plate on Atticus Finch's car changes. At first it is 709-865 as Atti [...] D
(at around 48 mins) When Atticus carries the sleeping Scout down the hall to her bedroom, after retu [...] D
(at around 1h 42 mins) While Atticus gets his papers together in the courtroom after the verdict, th [...] 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 J [...] D
During Atticus Finch's cross-examination of Mayella Ewell, he breaks off, has defendant Tom Robinson [...] 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 curt [...] D
Tom Robinson cannot use his left arm because the muscles were injured in an accident when he was a c [...] D
In the very beginning of the film, the adult Scout narrates, "Maycomb was a tired, old town, even in [...] D
(at around 30 mins) When Scout and Jem are debating Jem going back to retrieve his trousers from Boo [...] D
When Jem and Scout leave the tree with the knothole in it when Mr. Radley is filling in the knothole [...] D
At the beginning of the film, a penny in the cigar box dated 1960 is shown in the lower right corner [...] D
(at around 11 mins) When the children are shown waiting for Atticus to come home, Jem is lying in th [...] D
(at around 50 mins) In the long shot, when Jem discovers the spelling medal left in the old tree, it [...] D
(at around 1h 2 mins) When the rednecks from Old Sarum arrive at the jail alleyway to lynch Tom Robi [...] 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 tree [...] D
Atticus stated, "Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." Later Scout misquotes he [...] D
(at around 1h 12 mins) When Bob Ewell testifies he says he saw Tom Robinson running out the front do [...] D
(at around 44 mins) Similar to her "close-up" conversation with Jem about retrieving his breeches, S [...] 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 aw [...] D
Directly after the scene where Jem and Scout are attacked while walking home through the woods, as S [...] D
(at around 1h 57 mins) After the attack on Jem and Scout, Boo carries Jem towards the house and even [...] 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 le [...] D
(at around 1h 13 mins) When Bob Ewell is on the witness stand and Atticus asks him if he ran for a d [...] D