To Kill A Mockingbird (Drama) (1962) © 1999 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Atticus Finch..............................................Gregory Peck A gentle and highly moral lawyer in a small Southern town who agrees to defend a black man accused of rape. "Scout" (Jean Louise) Finch....................Mary Badham The adorable six year old daughter of Atticus who tells the story of the events that take place in the film. Jem Finch..................................................Phillip Alford Scout's protective 10 year old brother. Dill Harris................................................John Megna The friend of Scout and Jem who lives in their town during the summers. Tom Robinson...............................................Brock Peters The kind and soft-spoken black man who is falsely accused of rape, and now must face the charges with an all white jury. Mayella Violet Ewell.......................................Colin Wilcox The uneducated teenage girl who accuses Tom of raping her after she is seen trying to kiss him by her father. Bob Ewell..................................................James Anderson The uneducated, hateful and racist father of Mayella who claims that Tom raped her. Nathan Radley..............................................Richard Hale An antisocial, mysterious and scary man who lives down the street from the Finches. "Boo" (Arthur) Radley......................................Robert Duvall Mr. Radley's mentally disturbed but gentle son, who the town's people never see, and who is believed by some to be chained to a bed in his home. Sherrif Tate...............................................Frank Overton The sherrif (head police officer) of Macomb, the small Alabama town where the story takes place. Plot Summary This movie is the classic story of racism in a small fictional town in the American South, based on the book of the same title by Harper Lee. The story takes place in 1932, during the great economic depression, in Macomb, Alabama. It is told through the eyes of Scout Finch, an adorable six year old girl who loves her father very much, and who observes the great difficulties that he faces after he decides to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a poor white teenage girl. In telling her story, she reveals much about race, social class and the law in 1930s America. After deciding to take Tom's case, Atticus must deal with many serious problems, from the fact that other kids at his children's school make fun of his kids because their father was "defending a nigger," to doing everything he can to defend Tom Robinson's life from a white mob that was determined to kill him before he even had a chance to have a trial. However, the trial does eventually take place, and in it, Atticus uses hi责任编辑:yechenglu
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