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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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Set in Dayton, Tenn., famous trial lawyer Henry Drummond...
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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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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.
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Screenplay. Jerome Lawrence. Writer. Robert E. Lee. Writer. Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Stars. Spencer Tracy. Fredric March. Gene Kelly. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +4. Add to Watchlist. Added by 32.4K users. 230 User reviews. 62 Critic reviews. 75 Metascore. Nominated for 4 Oscars.
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]