Wow. What a book. What a film of the book. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is powerful and deep, so creating a screenplay that does it justice must have seemed impossible. But this film manages it and in no small measure due to Gregory Peck’s role as Atticus Finch, the small town lawyer defending a black man spitefully and wrongly accused of rape. And in the prejudice of the depression era deep south that means a foregone guilty verdict.

There isn’t a weak performance in the film, including the children who’s eyes the story is seen through. An absolute classic, which if you are a fan of the book, leaves you with a ‘they got that just right’ feeling and affirms that even if you lose, its is always right to resist evil.

And don’t be fooled by the colour on the cover, its a B&W movie.