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Inherit the Wind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee.It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady. It also features Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Florence ...
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 · Stanley Kramer 's "Inherit the Wind" (1960) is a movie about a courtroom battle between those who believe the Bible is literally true and those who believe, as the Spencer Tracy character puts it, that "an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral." Advertisement. The so-called Monkey Trial of 1925 put a young high school teacher named John T ...
Inherit the Wind is a thinly veiled fictionalisation of the "Scopes Monkey Trial" which had the country on the edge of its seat in 1925 deciding on a teacher, John T. Scopes', ability to teach ...
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Inherit the Wind Full Play Summary. At the courthouse in Hillsboro, a small Southern town, Bertram Cates is behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Rachel Brown, a friend and fellow teacher who also is the daughter of the town’s minister, visits Cates.
Inherit the Wind was also intended, in part, and like The Crucible, as a commentary on the McCarthy hearings in Congress—which sought, in the 1950s, to “root out” suspected Communists in American political, social, and cultural institutions. The idea of mass hysteria, suspicion, and a “witch hunt” for agnostics, Communists, or other ...
Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this recreation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. Stanley Kramer directs this masterpiece...
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 ...
Synopsis. Based on the famous Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 a Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck (played by Gene Kelly), arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and ...
Inherit the Wind, American film drama, released in 1960, that was inspired by the famous Scopes Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee high-school teacher was arrested and prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin ’s theory of evolution. (From left) Hope Summers, Gene Kelly, and Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960), directed by Stanley Kramer.
