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  2. 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.

  3. Jan 28, 2006 · Stanley Kramer 's "Inherit the Wind" (1960) is a movie about a courtroom battle between those who believe the Bible is literally true and those who believe, as the Spencer Tracy character puts it, that "an idea is a greater monument than a cathedral." Advertisement. The so-called Monkey Trial of 1925 put a young high school teacher named John T ...

  4. May 10, 2023 · Yes, ‘Inherit the Wind’ is inspired by a true story. The film is based on the eponymous play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee in 1955, which is, in turn, based on the case of the State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes, more commonly known as the Scopes “Monkey” Trial.

  5. Inherit the Wind was based on a play of the same name, written by American playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. It opened on Broadway in January 1955. The play was adapted for the movie by American screenwriters Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith.

  6. Edit page. 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
    • 2 min
  7. 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.

  8. Knock-out courtroom drama has deft comic touches. Read Common Sense Media's Inherit the Wind review, age rating, and parents guide.

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