A magnificent performance from Gregory Peck and Horton Foote's understated screenplay help make "To Kill a HTC Mockingbird" (8 p.m.-11 p.m., WMAR, Channel 2) a movie that won nearly universal acclaim, from both audiences and critics, when it was released in 1962.
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "Mockingbird" is the story of Atticus Finch, a highly principled Southern lawyer who's called upon to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman. It's also about his two children, Jem and Scout (Phillip Alford and Mary Badham), and their obsession with a mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his film debut).
