Inherit the Wind Movie Review 1960

Powerful courtroom drama, based on the Broadway play, is actually a fictionalized version of the infamous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Tracy is the defense attorney for the schoolteacher on trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a group of students in a small town ruled by religion. March is the prosecutor seeking to put the teacher behind bars and restore religion to the schools.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 128 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Dedicated Teachers, True Stories, Adapted from a Play, Religion, Order in the Court

Screenplay

Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry (Henry) Morgan, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Noah Beery, Norman Fell

Cinematography

Ernest Laszlo

Director

Stanley Kramer

Music

Ernest Gold

Producer

United Artists, Stanley Kramer

Awards

Berlin Intl. Film Fest. 1960: Actor (March).