To Kill A Mockingbird

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird received three Academy Awards®, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck's brilliant performance as the upstanding southern lawyer Atticus Finch. The film's nostalgic perspective and well-presented child's viewpoint of a racially charged rape trial during the 1930s struck a chord with audiences just as the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum in the early 1960s. As Finch strives to minimalize the traits of hatred and prejudice in his two small children (Badham and Alford), their lives are disrupted when he is assigned to defend Tom Robinson (Peters), a Negro farmworker accused of raping a white woman. Confronted by intimidating threats, increasing malice by the woman's bigoted father, Bob Ewell (Anderson), and a guilty verdict by the all-white jury, Finch's courtroom actions inflame the murderous wrath of Ewell—a vengeance that places his children's lives in danger. (Gary Reber)