Spencer Tracy
Henry Drummond
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Inherit the Wind: Directed by Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York. Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
Jan 28, 2006 · Seen 46 years after its release but only a few months after Darwin was once again on trial in Dover, Penn., "Inherit the Wind" is a film that rebukes the past when it might also have feared the future.
Inherit the Wind. Spencer Tracy and Frederic March go head-to-head as opposing attorneys in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" where a Tennessee teacher must defend himself for teaching Darwinism. 1,582 IMDb 8.1 2 h 7 min 1960. X-Ray 13+. Drama · Historical · Emotional · Tense. Available to rent or buy. Rent.
Introduction. Lawrence and Lee wrote Inherit the Wind nearly thirty years after the Scopes Monkey trial. Although the basis of the play is the Scopes trial, the play itself is not a historical retelling of the events. Instead, the play is fiction. Each of the two main characters, Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond, represents one side of ...
Inherit the Wind may refer to: Inherit the Wind, a 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee; Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer; starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly; Inherit the Wind, a television film starring Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of ...
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