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Incredible. Really incredible. Brock Peters is an absoulte revolation, Gregory Peck is naturally brilliant, and the young cast is just fantastic. An engaging, gripping and heartbreaking story, accompanied by a score that fits the film so well it was as if the film was written with the score in mind, not the other way round. It's great that music appears throughout the film and then disappears during the trial, it's as if you are sitting in the courthouse yourself, watching the injust manner of the trial in which Peck's lawyer, Atticus Finch, has no power of control other than saying the right thing. I love the scene in which Finch sits outside the room in which Peters' character is contained, and the scenes with 'Boo' Radley, in particular. And the way the film is split into thirds, going from the children to Finch, to the children again is excellently done. One of those films I feel I ought to talk about for hours but find difficult to put into words. A true masterpiece.
5/5
