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  1. 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.

    • Stanley Kramer
  2. 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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    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Stanley Kramer
    • 1960-08-30
  3. Jan 28, 2006 · The movie casts the battle as a struggle between the followers of a fundamentalist preacher (Claude Akins) and the snowy-haired agnostic Drummond, who believes Darwinism is as "incontrovertible as geometry," as indeed it seems to well over 99 percent of the world's scientists. The preacher's followers descend on the town with tents, a Ferris ...

  4. Jan 17, 2024. Rated: 3/4 • Sep 18, 2021. Rated: 4.5/5 • Oct 29, 2020. In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that...

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    • Spencer Tracy
    • Stanley Kramer
    • Lomitas Productions Inc.
  5. Synopsis. The townsmen of Hillsboro, Tennessee, led by Rev. Jeremiah Brown, arrest high school biology teacher Bertram T. Cates for violating a state law that prohibits the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Soon, the landmark case becomes a national cause célèbre , earning the nickname in the newspapers of "The Monkey Trial."

    • Stanley Kramer, Leonard Kunody, Ivan Volkman
    • Spencer Tracy
  6. Inherit the Wind (1960) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  7. Mar 13, 2024 · Inherit the Wind, American film drama, released in 1960, that was inspired by the famous Scopes Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee high-school teacher was arrested and prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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