To Kill a Mockingbird
In a small Alabama town in the 1930s, scrupulously honest and highly respected lawyer, Atticus Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter, Scout. While Robinson's trial gives the movie its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurrences before and after the court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother, Jem, her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris, her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging mad dog, and especially Scout's reactions to, and relationship with, Boo Radley, the reclusive 'village idiot' who turns out to be her salvation when she is attacked by a venomous bigot.
Crime, Drama
Universal Pictures
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, Brock Peters as Tom Robinson, James Anderson as Bob Ewell, Mary Badham as Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch, Phillip Alford as Jeremy 'Jem' Finch, John Megna as Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris, Estelle Evans as Calpurnia, Collin Wilcox Paxton as Mayella Violet Ewell (as Collin Wilcox), Frank Overton as Sheriff Heck Tate, Rosemary Murphy as Maudie Atkinson, Ruth White as Mrs. Dubose, Robert Duvall as Arthur 'Boo' Radley, Paul Fix as Judge Taylor, Alice Ghostley as Aunt Stephanie Crawford, William Windom as Mr. Gilmer - Prosecutor, Crahan Denton as Walter Cunningham Sr., Richard Hale as Nathan Radley, R.L. Armstrong as Man (uncredited), Eddie Baker as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Bobby Barber as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Danny Borzage as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), John Breen as Juror (uncredited), Jess Cavin as Juror (uncredited), Steve Condit as Walter Cunningham Jr. (uncredited), David Crawford as David Robinson (uncredited), Frank Ellis as Juror (uncredited), Charles Fredericks as Court Clerk (uncredited), Herman Hack as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Jester Hairston as Spence Robinson - Tom's Father (uncredited), Chuck Hamilton as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Kim Hamilton as Helen Robinson - Tom's Wife (uncredited), Michael Jeffers as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Dick Johnstone as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Colin Kenny as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Ethan Laidlaw as Townsman (uncredited), Nancy Marshall as Schoolteacher (uncredited), Charles Morton as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Paulene Myers as Jesse - Dubose Servant Girl (uncredited), William H. O'Brien as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Joe Ploski as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Hugh Sanders as Dr. Reynolds (uncredited), Mabel Smaney as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Cap Somers as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), George Sowards as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Ray Spiker as Townsman (uncredited), Kim Stanley as Scout as an Adult - Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Kelly Thordsen as Burly Mob Member (uncredited), Arthur Tovey as Juror (uncredited), Sailor Vincent as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Max Wagner as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Bill Walker as Reverend Sykes (uncredited), Joe Walls as Bailiff (uncredited), Dan White as Mob Leader (uncredited), Guy Wilkerson as Jury Foreman (uncredited), Chalky Williams as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited), Audrey Betz as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)