Inherit The Wind (1960)
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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 20 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Synopsis: This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools. Bertram T. Cates is arrested and put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in his classroom. The incident... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York
Director: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith
Composer: Ernest Gold
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith
Composer: Ernest Gold
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Director Stanley Kramer can't overcome the trepidations of a verbose courtroom drama, so he lets his two actors, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March dominate and go at each other, pretending it's a deep play of ideas.
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03/18/08
Stagey yes, but powerful Tracy and March acting + subject matter make this a must see.
02/24/08
Absorbing, if long-winded courtroom drama bolstered by two fine central performances from Tracy and March.
08/13/07
Spencer Tracy does his cuddly curmudgeon turn as Clarence Darrow; it's a lazy, vague performance, but its wit provides the only crack of light in the film's somber, gray overcast.
08/13/07
Top Critic
Tracy and March turn in superlative performances, each trying to upstage the other.
04/01/07
Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists.
02/09/06
Extraordinarly vivid, rich, and wise about the core questions of how we know and who we are.
04/04/03
A most worthwhile film, if for no other reason, because it provides a great opportunity to watch Tracy and March go at it in a most entertaining fashion.
02/11/02
Producer-director Stanley Kramer ably handles the incendiary material visually, making good use of deep focus and careful compositions
01/01/02
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