Run time: 124 mins

Adapted from Harper Lee’s timeless and priceless Pullitzer Prize-winning novel, Robert Mulligan’s 1962 Oscar-winning classic remains as captivating, entrancing and timeless as ever.

Told through a child’s eyes over a long and hot summer in America’s deep south, temperatures run high, literally and its sweaty metaphor, as a convincingly noble Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man against a charge of rape.

Striving to uphold the true spirit of the law, Atticus must fight to protect the innocence of his children Scout and Jem also as events ultimately expose them to the realities of racism and white trash prejudices of the (unchanged) place and time.

Themes of justice, fairness and tolerance are explored in depth, bolstered by one of the all-time great performances in the lowest of keys by an impeccable Gregory Peck.

“As Mulligan so deftly demonstrates, Harper Lee’s story is in the characters, their failings and fragility, their heroism and nobility of spirit.” (Telegraph)

“An American classic. Storytelling doesn’t get much better than this.” (Empire) Russell Harlan’s black & white camerawork is exquisite from the opening shot, and what a perfect opening credits sequence it is. Watch out for (who is?) Boo Radley. Not ever to be missed on the big screen.