Inherit the Wind

Name: Inherit the Wind
Director: Stanley Kramer
Genre: Drama
Released: 1960-07-07
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 7.66
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson

Directed by Stanley Kramer

Drama

19602h 8m7.7

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.