Set in a dusty and inward-looking Alabama town during the Depression, the film tells the story of a widowed lawyer and father of two named Atticus Finch who’s assigned to defend a black man ...

(Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Howell Raines is a former executive ... response to her decision to give us a searching look at Atticus Finch, the heroic Southern lawyer depicted in "To Kill a Mockingbird." ...

For all of the technological advancements and game-changing innovations in cinematography since 1962, it is hard to watch Gregory Peck playing Atticus Finch in black and white and not feel inspired.

Atticus Finch is a monster. Sure, he’s one of history’s most beloved literary characters (he was even played by Gregory Peck in a film adaptation) but he’s also, to use the parlance of our ...

Atticus Finch is his court-appointed lawyer, and after he gets the case, his daughter, Scout, the narrator, must contend with the disdain and ostracism of their neighbors. Atticus, too ...

Because it’s all too easy to hold up the unsullied Atticus Finch as a symbol of perfection when our reality seldom reflects such stainless idealism. Today, as America attempts to grapple with ...

We remember Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” as that novel’s moral conscience: kind, wise, honorable, an avatar of integrity who used his gifts as a ...

One of the icons of American literature, Atticus Finch of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” got a disconcerting revamp in 2015 when author Harper Lee published her long-lost first novel, “Go Set a ...

It did so, however, in a matter quite conventional: Atticus Finch was the white savior, a good white liberal whose ethics and values compelled him to defend a black man who had been falsely ...