Inherit the Wind

Action,Biography,Drama,History

1960
1h 37m
8.1

Gene Kelly,Wendell Holmes,Norman Fell,Jack Klugman

Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts.—Ed Stephan