https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVuVu5KXuE Trivia: Despite the novel's winning the Pulitzer Prize, the studios were not interested in buying up the film rights as they deemed it lacking in action, there was no love story and the villain doesn't get a big comeuppance. Producer Alan J. Pakula disagreed however and persuaded director Robert Mulligan that it would make a good film. "To Kill a Mockingbird" 1962 Screenplay by Horton Foote, based on the novel by Harper Lee. There is a Jacob's ladder of threats in this scene. The mob's very presence threatens Atticus Finch. He alone stands between the indignant rifle-toting red-necks and the object of their hatred, Tom Robinson. When his children appear out of the night, Atticus uses his sternest voice to threaten his son, Jem. When Jem refuses to leave, one of the men grabs him, "Well, I'll send him home," which sends Scout into a tear as she kicks the man and screams "let him go, let him go!" A cascade of demands and refusals resolved moments later by the innocent chatter of a girl child.