Directed by | Robert Mulligan |
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Screenplay by | Horton Foote |
Based on | To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 novel by Harper Lee |
Produced by | Alan J. Pakula |
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Narrated by | Kim Stanley |
Cinematography | Russell Harlan, A.S.C. |
Edited by | Aaron Stell, A.C.E. |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production company | Brentwood Productions |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $2 million |
Box office | $13.1 million |
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Not a typical Hollywood film, this one has no romance, its violence occurs only offstage, and it has no action. At the same time, its story was too controversial for some.
Tom Robinson is found guilty. Prejudice is more convincing than evidence.
Would that Alabama during the Depression were this redeemable. Would that an innocent child, indeed, could turn away a mob. Would that one or two good men could prevent the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.