Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was successfully translated to the big screen in 1962, and gave Gregory Peck his most memorable screen role. The story is told from the view point of a young girl nicknamed Scout (Badham) living in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1930s. Her father, Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer (Peck), takes on the defence of a black man charged with raping a white woman. The bigoted townspeople would prefer to take matters into their own hands and make life difficult for the lawyer and his children. At the same time, the children are full of fear and fascination for their mysterious neighbour, Boo Bradley. This sensitively told story is still powerful and poignant today. Gregory Peck won an Oscar for best actor and Horton Foote won for adapting the screenplay.

Philip Green (Peck) has been hired by a magazine to write a series of articles on the hidden problem of anti-Semitism in American society. At first he suffers from writer's block, as he does not think that there is anything new to write about the subject. Then he originates a novel approach: he will pose as a Jew and report on how people treat him personally. This is not difficult to accomplish, as Green is new to New York and no one really knows him. Trouble begins immediately, as his friends and colleagues claim that they are not prejudiced towards Jews but treat him differently nonetheless; his son (a young Dean Stockwell) gets beaten up by schoolyard bullies; his high society girlfriend (McGuire) is practically ostracised. The film was a box office and critical success in its day (winning the 1947 Oscar for best film) which implicated "nice people" in patterns of bigotry, though it is hard to see why it was so controversial and hard hitting back then. Perhaps newer forms of prejudice have become common place in America.