Inherit the Wind

IMDb link: 0053946
IMDb rating: 8.1 (35,547 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, History
Director: Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Dick York and others

Release date: 30 Aug 1960
Release year: 1960
Runtime: 128 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: religion versus science, evolution, scopes monkey trial, courtroom drama, teacher, lawyer, religious zealot, based on play, father daughter relationship, law

Plot:

Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts.

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