The triple Oscar-winning movie, based on Harper Lee’s influential and only novel, the movie stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a lawyer hired to defend Tom Robinson against a charge of rape: hard enough, but this is the 1930s in Southern States of America, the victim is white and the accused is black. However, this is no simple courtroom drama, as the plot unwinds through the eyes of Scout – Finch’s young daughter. Published in 1960, with the film following in ’62 – there’s a lot of unneverving relevance to modern life.
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