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Harper Lee's semi-autobiographical novel was the basis for this award-winning and heart-stirring drama. Young Scout Finch, a six-year-old tomboy, witnesses the racist bigotry of her small Alabama town when her idealistic lawyer father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) defends a black man accused of the rape of a white woman. Peck was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a principled man who must face the prejudices of the townspeople he thought he knew.
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