| Release Date: | Dec 1962 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Crime / Mystery |
| Awards: | Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations |
| Cast: | Gregory Peck (Atticus Finch), John Megna (Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris), Frank Overton (Sheriff Heck Tate), Rosemary Murphy (Maudie Atkinson), Ruth White (Mrs. Dubose), Brock Peters (Tom Robinson), Estelle Evans (Calpurnia), Paul Fix (Judge Taylor), Collin Wilcox Paxton (Mayella Violet Ewell), James Anderson (Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell), Alice Ghostley (Aunt Stephanie Crawford), Robert Duvall (Arthur 'Boo' Radley), William Windom (Mr. Gilmer, Prosecutor), Crahan Denton (Walter Cunningham Sr.), Richard Hale (Nathan Radley) |
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town ?
