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  2. Synopsis 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 ...

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  3. Review by Bruce Eder Stanley Kramer's Inherit The Wind is the topical movie that has aged better than almost anything else in Kramer's directorial output. In contrast to most of the social-issue films that he directed, including On the Beach, Inherit the Wind often seems as immediate and gripping as it did in 1960, mostly because its issues ...

  4. Film Synopsis I n Hillsboro, a small town in Tennessee, schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a class of high school students. According to state law, it is illegal to promulgate any view which contradicts the exact literal truth of the Bible.

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  5. Inherit the Wind, a cinematic dramatization of the Scopes Monkey Trial, is not just great for home viewing. It's also an excellent choice for classroom viewing. I know this because I saw this movie twice in school. The first time was in a U.S. history class in high school.

  6. 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 atheist ...

  7. Stanley Kramer. Synopsis. 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...

  8. 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.

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