Inherit the Wind

Name: Inherit the Wind
Director: Stanley Kramer
Genre: Drama
Released: 1960-07-07
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 7.648
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson

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1960

2h 8m

Drama

Director: Stanley Kramer

Writers: Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

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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.