Inherit The Wind (1960)

128 min · Forensic, Social Drama, drama film, trial film

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Directors

Stanley Kramer

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan

The story

In the 1920s, in the town of Hillsboro, Tennessee, a female voice sings "Old-time Religion" as schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for violating state law by conducting a lesson on Charles Darwin's Descent of Man. The event makes headlines around the world. Matthew Brady, statesman, three-time presidential candidate, and Biblical scholar, volunteers to assist Prosecutor Tom Davenport.

Catalogue themes and tags

1920s, Accusal, Audience, Beweismaterial, Bibel, Blamage, Charles Darwin, Court, Creation, Defendant, Discussion, Election Campaign, Elocution, Freedom, Freethinker, Fundamentalist, Headlines, Human Evolution, Judge, Jurors, Kampf, Kleinstadt, Mordzeugin, Prediger, Progress, Prozess, Publicity, Quote, Sentence, Skandalpresse, Species, Speech, Strenger Lehrer, Tennessee, Truth, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Vortrag, World view, Zuschauer, Zweikampf, Zwietracht, Period piece, Drama, Courtroom Drama

Genres

Forensic, Social Drama, drama film, trial film

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