Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
- right and justice
- rape
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- court case
- court
- isolation
- becoming an adult
- falsely accused
- arbitrary law
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Frank Overton — Sheriff Heck Tate
- Brock Peters — Tom Robinson
- Rosemary Murphy — Maudie Atkinson
- Ruth White — Mrs. Dubose
- Estelle Evans — Calpurnia
- Paul Fix — Judge Taylor
- Collin Wilcox Paxton — Mayella Violet Ewell
- James Anderson — Bob Ewell
- Alice Ghostley — Aunt Stephanie Crawford
- Robert Duvall — Boo Radley
- William Windom — Mr. Gilmer
- Directed
- Robert Mulligan
- Written
- Horton Foote
Production
- Studio
- Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions, Universal Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
