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Summaries. 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. Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes.
English. Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind:… The Truth about Stanley Kramer’s Inherit the Wind History is consistently used in films as a technique to teach the values and morals of events that occurred. But what’s the point in teaching history through films when they are terribly fictional?
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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.
Although the film was based on real events, the names of all the participants were changed. Spencer Tracy and Fredric March portrayed characters based on Clarence Darrow (the defense attorney) and William Jennings Bryan (the prosecutor), respectively. The men square off in famous courtroom battles at the heart of an important chapter in American history. Gene Kelly was cast as a cynical reporter who was modeled after H.L. Mencken.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director and producer: Stanley Kramer
•Writers: Nedrick Young (real name Nathan E. Douglas) and Harold Jacob Smith
•Music: Ernest Gold
•Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond)
•Fredric March (Matthew Harrison Brady)
•Gene Kelly (E.K. Hornbeck)
•Dick York (Bertram Cates)
•Screenplay, adapted
•Cinematography (black and white)
•Editing
•Lead actor (Spencer Tracy)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Background. Inherit the Wind (1960) is an absorbing liberal "message" film that portrays, in partly fictionalized form, the famous and dramatic courtroom "Monkey Trial" battle (in the sultry summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee) between two famous lawyers (Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan). Both volunteered to heatedly argue both sides ...
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.
- Stanley Kramer
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Inherit the Wind is a 1999 American made-for-television film adaptation of the 1955 play of the same name which originally aired on Showtime on May 29, 1999. The original play was written as a parable which fictionalized the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means of discussing the 1950s McCarthy trials. [1] .
Overview. Schoolteacher Bertram Cates 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, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates.
