To Kill A Mockingbird

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Actor Gregory Peck and novelist Harper Lee on the movie set of the film To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962. Lee was so taken with Gregory Peck's portrayal of Atticus that she gifted him with her father's watch

To Kill A Mockingbird is the story of a girl nicknamed Scout growing up in a Depression-era Southern town. It is a semi-autobiographical novel

  

In the story, a black man (played by Brock Peters in the film, pictured) is wrongly accused of raping a white woman, and Scout's father, the resolute lawyer Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck)

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