TY - ADVS AU - Foote,Horton AU - Pakula,Alan J. AU - Mulligan,Robert AU - Peck,Gregory AU - Badham,Mary AU - Alford,Phillip AU - Lee,Harper ED - Brentwood Productions, Inc TI - To kill a mockingbird SN - 0783225857 PY - 1998/// CY - Universal City, CA PB - Universal KW - Trials (Rape) KW - Southern States KW - Drama KW - Racism KW - Race discrimination KW - Finch, Atticus (Fictitious character) KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962; Based on the novel by Harper Lee; Director of photography, Russell Harlan; film editor, Aaron Stell; music, Elmer Bernstein; Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Collin Wilcox N2 - The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him-- except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children ER -