- HD 1080
- Runtime: 128m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Stanley Kramer
- Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson
- keywords: politician, based on true story, trial, teacher, lawyer, courtroom, evolution, rhetoric, scopes monkey trial, judiciary, courtroom drama
- Production_studio: Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
- Slogan: It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!
- The Inherit the Wind is featured in the top rankings of 1960
- #10 in Top Drama Movies of 1960
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.
