Inherit the Wind1960
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Director
Screenplay
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Actors
Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Noah Beery Jr., Ray Teal, Florence Eldridge, Hank Mann, Addison Richards, Will Wright
Music
Versions
Theatrical – 128 Minutes
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About the film
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.
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Ratings
7.7tmdb
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