Two distinct characters landed on top of the Hollywood movie heroes-and-villains list released last week by the American Film Institute.
In the villain category sat Hannibal (the Cannibal) Lecter, so memorably played three times by Anthony Hopkins. No shock there. But the number one hero was a pleasant yet deserving surprise: Atticus Finch, the crusading lawyer played with such conviction by Gregory Peck in the humanist drama To Kill A Mockingbird (1962).
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