A Time to Kill
A heavy, tense courtroom drama that simmers with racial injustice and revenge, demanding emotional engagement and offering cathartic release.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A slow, sunlit memory of childhood that slowly tightens into a quiet, devastating moral reckoning.
About 1962 film by Robert Mulligan
Genres drama, crime, trial
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Written by Horton Foote
Starring Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Brock Peters, Paul Fix, William Windom, Rosemary Murphy, Mary Badham, Alice Ghostley
Music Elmer Bernstein
Runtime 129 min
Country United States
Links Wikipedia · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikidata
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