To Kill a Mockingbird

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Actors: Robert Duvall , Gregory Peck , Rosemary Murphy , Paul Fix , James Anderson , Richard Hale , William Windom , Brock Peters , Collin Wilcox Paxton , John Megna , Frank Overton , Alice Ghostley , Ruth White , Crahan Denton , Estelle Evans

Director: Robert Mulligan

IMDB Rate: 8.5 out of 10 (77716 votes)

Plot Summary:Through the eyes of Scout, a feisty six-year-old tomboy, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1932 Alabama. Presenting her tale first as a sweetly lulling reminiscence of events from her childhood, the narrator draws us near with stories of daring neighborhood exploits by she, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill. Peopled with a cast of eccentrics, Maycomb (a tired and sleepy town) finds itself the venue of the trial of Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of raping an ignorant white woman. Atticus Finch, Scout and Jems widowed father and a deeply principled man, is appointed to defend Tom for whom a guilty verdict from an all-white jury is a foregone conclusion. Juxtaposed against the story of the trial is the childrens hit and run relationship with Boo Radley, a shut-in who the children and Dills Aunt Rachel suspect of insanity and who no one has seen in recent history. Cigar-box treasures, found in the knot hole of a tree near the ramshackle Radley house, temper the childrens judgment of Boo. You never know someone, Atticus tells Scout, until you step inside their skin and walk around a little. But fear keeps them at a distance until one night, in streetlight and shadows, the children confront an evil born of ignorance and blind hatred and must somehow find their way home.