To Kill a Mockingbird

Introduction and comments following To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Jeff Daniels.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962.

Starting with a famous camera move, Atticus (Gregory Peck) tucking Scout (Mary Badham) into bed, then on the porch hearing her with brother Jem (Phillip Alford) remembering their mother, in To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962.

Atticus (Gregory Peck) with Scout (Mary Badham), then Kim Stanley's narration to the vignette about the mad dog, featuring Caplurnia (Estelle Evans), Jem (Phillip Alford) and Sheriff Tate (Frank Overton), from To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962.

Stephen Frankfurt's famous credit sequence and Kim Stanley as the voice of the adult "Scout," reading from Harper Lee's novel, opening To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962, starring Gregory Peck.

Young Walter (Steve Condit) is a guest at dinner after a schoolyard scrap with Scout (Mary Badham), Atticus (Gregory Peck) and Jem (Phillip Alford) joining conversation, in To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962, from Harper Lee's novel and Horton Foote's screenplay.

Jem (Phillip Alford) and Scout (Mary Badham) in the tree-house, first meet Dill (John Megna), tell him legends of Boo Radley, underlined by Aunt Stephanie (Alice Ghostley), early in To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962, directed by Robert Mulligan.

Jem (Phillip Alford), Scout (Mary Badham) and Dill (John Megna) to the courthouse where they observe Atticus (Gregory Peck) in early proceedings, then we see him confronted by Ewell (James Anderson), father of the victim, in To Kill A Mockingbird 1962.

A young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) starring Gregory Peck.