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Learning
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TITLE |
To
Kill a Mocking Bird (1962) |
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DISABILITY |
Learning
difficulty |
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This is a
simple story of a black worker wrongly accused of |
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rape and
defended by the local lawyer. Despite his obvious |
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innocence he
is convicted and later killed while attempting to |
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escape. But
everything is in the detail. |
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It is a
superb film included here because of the mysterious |
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Boo Radley
(Duvall) who in some way is "mentally disabled". |
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One could
almost say the film would be better without the |
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court scene
because it is when the children are the centre of |
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the action
that the film is at its best. One wonders what |
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happened to
first-time actors Mary Badham and Philip Alford. |
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Tom Robinson
who plays the black worker accused of rape |
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has a
useless left arm caught in a cotton gin when he was 12 |
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From the
novel by Harper Lee. |
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I've learned
that Mary Badham had never acted before nor |
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since, and
is the sister of director John Badham. Also Harper |
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Lee has
never written another novel. |
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Notes
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