Inherit the Wind
It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!
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Release Date
7/7/1960Runtime
128 minsGenres
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. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$2,000,000Revenue
$2,000,000Homepage
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A charged courtroom battle over evolution versus creationism that transcends its historical trial setting to become a passionate debate about the nature of truth, authority, and individual conscience. It's a film about ideas at stake, with rhetorical combat as engrossing as any physical drama.
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Spencer Tracy
Henry Drummond
Fredric March
Matthew Harrison Brady
Gene Kelly
E.K. Hornbeck
Dick York
Bertram T. Cates
Donna Anderson
Rachel Brown
Harry Morgan
Judge Mel
Claude Akins
Rev. Jeremiah Brown
Elliott Reid
Prosecutor Tom Davenport
Paul Hartman
Bailiff Mort Meeker
Philip Coolidge
Mayor Jason Carter
Jimmy Boyd
Howard
Noah Beery Jr.
John Stebbins
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