Inherit The Wind (1960)

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... 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 causes a furor in the religious southern community he lives in and Matthew Harrison Brady, a famous fundamentalist attorney, arrives to prosecute the young teacher. Luckily for Cates, the equally-acclaimed lawyer Henry Drummond agrees to defend him. As a result, the two master attorneys square off in the courtroom while the teacher's life hangs in the balance. [More]

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Elliot Reid

Director: Stanley Kramer

Director: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Screenwriter: Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith
Composer: Ernest Gold

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