After accepting the case of defending a black man, accused of raping a white woman, Atticus Finch, a successful lawyer lives in a small town, Alabama, where people suffer from a racial discrimination, turns down his life, as he becomes treated as an enemy in his town, but he overcome all the obstacles and defended him.
Harper Lee's child's-eye view of southern bigotry gains something in its translation to the screen by Robert Mulligan, who knows exactly where to place the camera to catch a child's subjective experience.
Gregory Peck stays beautifully within the character of the bespectacled, widowed man, but with its episodes unevenly joined, the script is too repetitive and long.