Film Screening: To Kill A Mockingbird

First Friday Films: Troubled Texts: Banned Books on Film To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, 1962. Starring Gregory Peck. Based on the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Introduction by Jenny Romero, Robert De Niro Curator of Film. This series features three notable films based on banned books and is presented in conjunction with the Ransom Center’s exhibition Freedom to Write, Freedom to Read: The Story of PEN. Jenny Romero, Robert De Niro Curator of Film at the Harry Ransom Center, will introduce the film, examining how book bans affected film adaptations and how filmmakers worked within the confines of Hollywood’s censorship, or “self-regulation” apparatus, the Production Code Administration. 🖼: [Gregory Peck and Brock Peters in "To Kill a Mockingbird"], 1962. Film Stills Collection, © Universal International. More Info below.