Brock Peters
/Actor
Gregory Peck
/Actor
Mary Badham
/Actor
Paul Fix
/Actor
Robert Duvall
/Actor
Rosemary Murphy
/Actor
William Windom
/Actor
Robert Mulligan
/Director
December 25, 1962
Drama
Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him - except Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.