Sold Date:
February 11, 2016
Start Date:
December 6, 2010
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's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by and the producer/director team of and . Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by . Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson (), a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout (). While Robinson's trial gives the film its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurrences before and after the court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (), her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris (a character based on 's childhood chum and played by ), her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging mad dog, and especially Scout's reactions to, and relationship with, Boo Radley ( in his movie debut), the reclusive "village idiot" who turns out to be her salvation when she is attacked by a venomous bigot. won Academy Awards for Best Actor (), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction.
1976 Original Soundtrack LP Released by The Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection # FMC-7 (Stereo).
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