Need help findin the name of this horror
 

there is a horror movie i saw a few times when i was very young. i was always too scared to watch it all the way. i have no idea what the name of this film is,and very little clues.here is all i can remember.

1) it was a movie that everyone watched once a year, like The Wizard of Oz ,Charlie Browns Holiday Shows, things like that.

2) it was black and white, and had to have been made around the 1950's or earlier , but i'm not real sure about that.

3) i remember kids in halloween costumes or something, and it seems like they
were in like a graveyard or something and scared to go into this haunted house.

4)i remember and old man,very scary in this film.

sorry thats all i remember.i was like between 3 and 6 years old (late 60's,early 70's)and when i got older,and asked about this movie, nobody knew what i was talking about. im 41 now and this has bugged me for decades.
anyone have any clues to what this mvoie might have been?
thanks! allen

It sounds a bit like To Kill a Mockingbird.

To Kill a Mockingbird
 

Good call. That's exactly what it sounds like. Any of this look familiar?

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/data/13...b0zm_00020.jpg

http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/scary/mockingbirdham.jpg

that looks like it might be it,i will buy that movie and see. after i thought about it some more, it seems like one of the kids was wearing a burlap sack or something,does that ring a bell ?

thanks!!!!!! allen

Yup. It is indeed the spinechilling horror classic To Kill a Mockingbird. You can tell it's scary because the guy from the Omen's in it.

Maybe the famous ham costume? See the photos above. Actually that scene in the woods is pretty scary, as are a number of other bits involving the creepy house next door. (Not to mention Truman Capote as a child.)

The kid who played Dill is that movie's only weakness.

Who would have been more convincing? Brandon de Wilde? Julie Harris? Some sort of South American tree frog?

I think the treefrog.

Sadly, I think so too ...