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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. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
In the play and film versions of Inherit the Wind, the names and places are changed, but the basic chronology was retained, along with most of the original court transcripts. John Scopes becomes Bertram Cates (Dick York); Clarence Darrow is Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy); William Jennings Bryan is Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March). Drama.
Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account based on the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" which took place in Tennessee in 1925. It is both the first full-length play and film which deals with that trial. (There had been a one-hour dramatization of the incident, "The Sad Death of a Hero", on an obscure television program called "TV Readers Digest ...
This drama is loosely based on the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” Dayton, Tennessee, 1925. However, the inspiring event for “Inherit the Wind” was the red scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s and the excesses of redbaiters such as Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Therefore the “trial” in the film ...
Inherit the Wind. To heighten the tension of Spencer Tracy 's final summation to the jury, the scene was filmed in a single take. Stanley Kramer was advised against casting Fredric March and Spencer Tracy in the lead roles as it was felt young audiences would not want to see veteran stars. Fredric March and Florence Eldridge, the actors who ...
Inherit the Wind. A biblical orator (Kirk Douglas) opposes a liberal lawyer (Jason Robards) defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.
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1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Nedrick Young. Harold Jacob Smith. 1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Ernest Laszlo. 1961 Nominee Oscar. Best Film Editing.
