Spencer Tracy
Henry Drummond
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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.
- $2 million
- Ernest Gold
- Stanley Kramer
A classic courtroom drama starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly as lawyers on opposite sides of a case involving a teacher accused of teaching evolution. The film is loosely based on the 1925 Scopes monkey trial, where Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan clashed over religion and science.
- (32K)
- Biography, Drama, History
- Stanley Kramer
- 1960-08-30
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 ...
- (658)
- Spencer Tracy
- Stanley Kramer
- Lomitas Productions Inc.
Jan 28, 2006 · A film about the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, a courtroom battle between Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism in Tennessee. The film depicts the arguments of two famous lawyers, Darrow and Bryan, and their opponents, a fundamentalist preacher and a journalist, based on historical characters and events.
Learn about the historical background and the main characters of Inherit the Wind, a play that depicts the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 as a courtroom drama between fundamentalism and science. The play explores the conflict between Matthew Harrison Brady, a fundamentalist lawyer, and Henry Drummond, a science teacher who defends the teaching of evolution in public schools.
At the courthouse in Hillsboro, a small Southern town, Bertram Cates is behind bars, awaiting trial for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. Rachel Brown, a friend and fellow teacher who also is the daughter of the town’s minister, visits Cates.
