To Kill A Mockingbird

Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford

Robert Mulligan‘s classic adaptation of Harper Lee‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama.  It is told from the perspective of a young girl nicknamed Scout (Mary Badham) whose widowed father Atticus Finch (Peck), an attorney, decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) charged with raping a white woman. But the bigoted townspeople would rather lynch the accused than try him, and they make life hellish for the lawyer, his daughter and his son Jem.

While their father is in the throes of the trial, his bright, inquisitive children learn a hard and unforgettable lesson in justice, morality and prejudice, part of which requires overcoming their unfounded fear of their mysterious neighbour Boo Radley (a very young Robert Duvall).

There will be a post-film discussion hosted by Dr Patrick Glen of University College London