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Inherit the Wind

It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!

1960 · NR · 2h 8m

Directed by Stanley Kramer

7.6

TMDB audience score
498 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • 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

  • Norman Fell
    WGN Radio Technician

  • Gordon Polk
    George Sillers

  • Hope Summers
    Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman

  • Ray Teal
    Jessie H. Dunlap

  • Renee Godfrey
    Mrs. Stebbins

  • Florence Eldridge
    Sarah Brady