To Kill A Mockingbird #34 on the AFI Top 100 List **

Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) 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. I thought this is what the movie was about but found that it dealt very much with his children as well, for most of the movie for that matter. Gregory Peck did a good job and it was a nice surprise to see who played 'Boo' Radley