Inherit the Wind

(1960)

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Synopsis

Version of the Broadway hit about 1925's Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee, where high-school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law. The resulting trial brought together two titans of the legal profession, one "belching platitudes" of creationism and the other championing the evolutionist cause.

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York