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  1. Inherit the Wind is a 1988 American legal drama television film directed by David Greene and written by John Gay, based on the 1955 play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The film stars Kirk Douglas , Jason Robards , Darren McGavin and Jean Simmons .

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  2. Mar 20, 1988 · Inherit the Wind: Directed by David Greene. With Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, John Harkins. A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.

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    • Drama, History
    • David Greene
    • 1988-03-20
  3. 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...

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    • Spencer Tracy
    • Stanley Kramer
    • Lomitas Productions Inc.
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  5. 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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    • David Greene
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    • Kirk Douglas
  6. Inherit the Wind is a 1988 American legal drama television film directed by David Greene and written by John Gay, based on the 1955 play of the same name by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The film stars Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin and Jean Simmons.

  7. Play Trailer. The great minds of their day. The most famous court battle of the century. The explosive issue that won't go away! Overview. Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. David Greene. Director. John Gay. Writer.

  8. An adaptation of the play based on the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925, in which a high school teacher in Tennessee was prosecuted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The leading characters of Matthew Harrison Brady and Henry Drummond are thinly veiled portraits of the actual attorneys in...

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