To kill a mockingbird [videorecording] / screenplay, Horton Foote ; produced by Alan J. Pakula ; directed by Robert Mulligan ; a Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions picture.
Other Titles: To kill a mockingbird (Motion picture : 1962).
To kill a mockingbird.
Edition: Collector's ed.
Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal, c1998.
ISBN: 0783225857
Description: 1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Finch, Atticus (Fictitious character) Drama.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Director of photography, Russell Harlan; film editor, Aaron Stell; music, Elmer Bernstein.
Performers: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Collin Wilcox.
Notes: In English with optional soundtrack in French; optional subtitles in Spanish; closed-cationed in English for the hearing impaired.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.
Based on the novel by Harper Lee.
Contents: Disc 1. The film (b&w; 130 min.) ; bonus features (ca. 36 min.) -- Disc 2. Additional bonus features (ca. 98 min.) including a conversation with Gregory Peck / film by Cecilia Peck [et al.] (ca. 90 min.) -- 11 post card-sized reproductions of original theatrical posters from around the world along with a note from author Harper Lee.
Summary: The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
