To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote is based on Harper Lees 1960 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel of the same name. It stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham as Scout.

The films young protagonists, Jean Louise Scout Finch Mary Badham and her brother Jeremy Atticus Jem Finch Phillip Alford, live in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. The story covers three years, during which Scout and Jem undergo changes in their lives. They begin as innocent children, who spend their days happily playing games with each other and spying on Arthur Boo Radley Robert Duvall, who has not been seen for many years by anybody as a result of never leaving his house and about whom many rumors circulate. Their widowed father, Atticus Gregory Peck, is a town lawyer and has a strong belief that all people are to be treated fairly, to turn the other cheek, and to stand for what you believe. He also allows his children to call him by his first name. Early in the film, the children see their father accept hickory nuts, and other produce, from Mr. Cunningham Crahan Denton for legal work because the client has no money. Through their fathers work as a lawyer, Scout and Jem begin to learn of the racism and evil in their town, aggravated by poverty they mature quickly as they are exposed to it.The local judge Paul Fix appoints Atticus to defend a black man, Tom Robinson Brock Peters, against an accusation of rape of a white teenaged girl, Mayella Ewell. Atticus accepts the case. Jem and Scout experience schoolyard taunts for their fathers decision. Later, a lynch mob, led by Mr. Cunningham, tries to lynch Robinson over Atticus objections. Scout, Jem and their friend, Dill, interrupt the confrontation. Scout, unaware of the mobs purpose, recognizes Cunningham as the man who paid her father in hickory nuts and tells him to say hello to his son, who is her schoolmate. Cunningham becomes embarrassed and the mob disperses. ........

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