Brock Peters

Sol Nazerman is a survivor of a WWII Nazi death camp where his wife, parents and children were murdered. His soul robbed of hope, he takes refuge in misery and a bitter condemnation of humanity while managing a Harlem pawnshop. Working with Sol in the pawn shop is an ambitious man named Ortiz, whose own views and aspirations differ greatly from those of his embittered boss.

In a small Alabama town in the thirties, a softly-spoken lawyer Atticus Finch defends a black sharecropper against a charge of raping a white woman.