To Kill a Mockingbird

No romance, no action

Not a typical Hollywood film, this one has no romance, its violence occurs only offstage, and it has no action. At the same time, its story was too controversial for some.

Atticus loses the case

Tom Robinson is found guilty. Prejudice is more convincing than evidence.

Pieties

Would that Alabama during the Depression were this redeemable. Would that an innocent child, indeed, could turn away a mob. Would that one or two good men could prevent the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.