Spencer Tracy
Henry Drummond
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Summaries. 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. Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes.
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
- Overview
- Production notes and credits
- Cast
- Academy Award nominations
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.
Although the film was based on real events, the names of all the participants were changed. Spencer Tracy and Fredric March portrayed characters based on Clarence Darrow (the defense attorney) and William Jennings Bryan (the prosecutor), respectively. The men square off in famous courtroom battles at the heart of an important chapter in American history. Gene Kelly was cast as a cynical reporter who was modeled after H.L. Mencken.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director and producer: Stanley Kramer
•Writers: Nedrick Young (real name Nathan E. Douglas) and Harold Jacob Smith
•Music: Ernest Gold
•Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond)
•Fredric March (Matthew Harrison Brady)
•Gene Kelly (E.K. Hornbeck)
•Dick York (Bertram Cates)
•Screenplay, adapted
•Cinematography (black and white)
•Editing
•Lead actor (Spencer Tracy)
- Lee Pfeiffer
Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Quotes. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. In the twenties, a schoolteacher creates a national furor when he breaks the law against teaching evolution. Cast & Crew. Read More. Stanley Kramer. Director. Spencer Tracy. Henry Drummond. Fredric March. Matthew Harrison Brady. Gene Kelly. E. K. Hornbeck. Dick York.
- Stanley Kramer, Leonard Kunody, Ivan Volkman
- Spencer Tracy
Synopsis by Hal Erickson The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspiration was the 1925 "Monkey Trial," in which Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law.
Background. Inherit the Wind (1960) is an absorbing liberal "message" film that portrays, in partly fictionalized form, the famous and dramatic courtroom "Monkey Trial" battle (in the sultry summer of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee) between two famous lawyers (Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan). Both volunteered to heatedly argue both sides ...
Overview. Schoolteacher Bertram Cates 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, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates.
