To Kill A Mockingbird

Crime, Drama

Gregory Peck	Atticus Finch
Mary Badham	Jean Louise Finch
Robert Duvall	Boo Radley
Philip Alford	Jem Finch
Richard Hale	Mr. Radley
John Megna	Dill Harris
Rosemary Murphy	Miss Maudie Atkinson
Frank Overton	Sheriff Heck Tate
Brock Peters	Tom Robinson
Ruth White	Mrs. Dubose

Director	Robert Mulligan
Producer	Alan J. Pakula
Writer	Harper Lee; Horton Foote
Cinematography	Russell Harlan
Musician	Elmer Bernstein

It is the 1930’s, the height of the Depression, and in rural Maycomb County, Alabama a young black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) stands accused of raping a white girl. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), a thoughtful and principled local attorney, has been assigned to defend him at trial, an impossible task in his racially divided town. While Atticus suffers through the accusations and humiliations leveled at him by his fellow townsfolk, he determinedly stands by his promise to represent Tom, a man he knows to be innocent, while at the same time trying his best to pass on his own ideals of fairness and justice to his two young children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Phillip Alford) in the face of the blind hatred, ignorance and intolerance that surround them.