Inherit the Wind (1960)
- Directed by
- Stanley Kramer
- Genre
- drama film, trial film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 03m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 476 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A small-town teacher is arrested for teaching evolution in 1920s Tennessee. Two famous lawyers, old friends, face off in a courtroom battle over science, religion, and free thought.
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What happens
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 Edwin Lee. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady. It also features Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Florence Eldridge, Jimmy Boyd and Gordon Polk. The script was adapted by Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Kramer was commended for bringing in Young, as he had been blacklisted and was forced to use the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas. Inherit the Wind is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss McCarthyism. Written in response to the chilling effect of the McCarthy era investigations on intellectual discourse, the film (like the play) is critical of creationism. A television remake of the film which starred Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley was broadcast in 1965. Another television remake that starred Jason Robards and Kirk Douglas aired in 1988. It was remade for television again in 1999, co-starring Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Brady. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.