Inherit the Wind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert ...
Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in Dallas under the direction of Margo Jones in 1955.
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Inherit the Wind
1960 ‧ Drama/Drama ‧ 2h 8m
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in...
Release date: July 21, 1960 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Story by: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Screenplay: Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
Distributed by: United Artists
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Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's ...
A small-town educator's trial for teaching the theory of evolution becomes a battle royal of wits, wisdom and will for two of the country's most powerful ...
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Inspired by the Scopes Monkey Trial, the film tells the story of a grade school teacher charged for violating state law when he introduces his class to ...
Inherit the Wind explores themes of intellectual freedom, the importance of critical thinking, and the dangers of dogmatism and censorship.
Feel the heat of the courtroom in the sizzling American classic Inherit the Wind, an explosive drama inspired by the most important trial of the 20th Century.
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Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century.