To Kill a Mockingbird
- Drama
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
- Directed by
- Robert Mulligan
- Written by
- Horton Foote
- Based on
- Harper Lee
Cast
- Gregory Peck
- Mary Badham
- Phillip Alford
- John Megna
- Frank Overton
- Brock Peters
- Rosemary Murphy
- Ruth White
- Estelle Evans
- Paul Fix
- Collin Wilcox Paxton
- James Anderson
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- kids
- dramatic
- suspenseful
- 1930s
- based on young adult novel
- sibling relationship
- court case
- injustice
- isolation
- alabama
- compassionate
- black and white
- trial
- courtroom drama
- court
- racism
- melancholy
- desperate
- rape
- right and justice
- intolerance
- falsely accused
- becoming an adult
- arbitrary law
- exclusion
- socially deprived family
- tree house
- defence
- farm worker
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