HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!

FRIDAY, OCT. 31 at 3:00PM & 8:30PM

In small-town Alabama in 1932, Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a Black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbors, the Radleys, in particular the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley (Robert Duvall). It’s on a terrifying Halloween night that the children… Oh wait, I don’t want to spoil it for you. (Ha ha)

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” has been voted the most popular book in America, so it’s little wonder that the 1962 film version with the great Gregory Peck is considered one of the greatest films of all time. Alabama children Mary Badham and Phillip Alford play Scout and Jem in the movie, which won three Academy Awards including Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress.

You can also watch To Kill a Mockingbird – along with dozens of other films from our Cinema Classics Collection – with Passport. 

To Kill a Mockingbird ALSO comes to life in a new production at the Virginia Samford Theatre in Birmingham running December 11 – 21. VST also presents a special reading of author Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory December 4-7.  Alabama Public Television will offer tickets to both shows.