They are abruptly brought out of their insulated and carefree world by their father""s unpopular but courageous defense of a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a Southern white woman.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)This was the ninth film in the series - a nasty remake (or updated re-imagining) of the original 1978 film - with the first half or two-thirds a prequel, and the final half or third a fairly faithful remake and reshooting of the original.After phone calls to the hotel manager, who reports the complaint by phone to Horace in the room, Travers continues to dance around, toppling a marble statue from its pedestal...It""s just as though you were bound o her in some way...as I am to you.As she was to Miller."Philip: "As every human being is to something or other."After the birth of Mildred""s child in the hospital, she had a cold reaction to her baby fathered out-of-wedlock with Emile: "Funny-looking little thing, isn""t it? I can""t believe it""s mine.