To Kill a Mockingbird

Alabama in the 1930s. The children Scout *(Mary Badham) and Jem *(Phillip Alford) play in the street,* while their lawyer father Atticus Finch *(Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of raping a young white woman. The controversial nature of the trial,* taking place in the racist culture of the Deep South,* leads the local townsfolk to turn against Finch and sees his family become the victim of a series of terror attacks. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee,* *'To Kill a Mockingbird' won Oscars for Peck and screenwriter Horton Foote.