To Kill a Mockingbird (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)
by Harper Lee (novel); Robert Mulligan (director); Horton Foote (screenwriter); Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall (starring)
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Based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee. One of the greatest and most loved literary adaptations ever to reach the screen, and the film debut of Robert Duvall, in a dialogue-free role, as Boo Radley. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck and Best Screenplay. Nominated for the Palme d'Or.
Set in fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, shot on location in Monroeville, Alabama and Pasadena, California.
Red titled wrappers, noted as FINAL SCREENPLAY on the front wrapper, dated December 27, 1961. Title page present, noted as Final Screenplay, with credits for screenwriter Horton Foote. 148 leaves, with last page of text numbered 136. Mimeograph duplication on eye-rest green stock, rectos only, with blue and pink revision pages throughout, dated between 1/17/62 and 2/12/62. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with three gold brads.
In a custom red quarter-leather clamshell box.
National Film Registry. Penzler, 101 Greatest Films of Mystery and Suspense.
Synopsis
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious issues of rape and racial inequality.
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“I never deliberately learned to read……..Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the line above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills To Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Day - anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
To Kill a Mockingbird is the first published novel by American author, Harper Lee. Almost-nine-year-old Scout (Jean Louise) Finch had never set eyes on her reclusive neighbour, Boo (Arthur) Radley, until the night of Halloween, 1935. To Scout, her almost-thirteen-year-old brother, Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch) and their summer vacation friend, Dill (Charles Parker Harris), Boo Radley was an almost mythical creature who remained hidden in the Radley house and was the subject of much childhood speculation. Their fascination was frowned upon by their father, Atticus, a lawyer elected to the state legislature.
When Atticus took on the defence of a black man, he warned his children that some unpleasantness could well be the result. This was, after all, Alabama, and attitudes to race and class were strongly prejudiced, but what happened after the verdict was beyond anyone’s expectations.
Lee’s telling of events from Scout’s point of view gives the reader a unique perspective that includes much humour as Scout, Jem and Dill learn life’s lessons. The Finch’s black housekeeper, Calpurnia, their neighbour, Miss Maudie Atkinson, their Aunt Alexandra, Atticus, and even Jem are given words of wisdom that will resonate today as they did when the book was first published: “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents” and “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” are but two examples.
Lee’s book deserves multiple readings: each pass through will reveal new delights. Truman Capote’s description: “A touching book; and so funny, so likeable” is wholly apt. Unforgettable.
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- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
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- Title
- To Kill a Mockingbird (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)
- Author
- Harper Lee (novel); Robert Mulligan (director); Horton Foote (screenwriter); Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall (starring)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Universal-International Pictures
- Place of Publication
- Universal City
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Film Scripts | 1960s Cinema | Films with Literary Sources | Mystery and Crime | Southern Literature | African American Interest | Academy Awards | National Film Registry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Scripts; Films with Literary Sources; Southern Literature; National Film Registry;
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