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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
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.
Length 128 minutes
Actors
Spencer Tracy | Fredric March | Gene Kelly | Dick York | Donna Anderson | Harry Morgan | Claude Akins | Elliott Reid | Paul Hartman | Philip Coolidge | Jimmy Boyd | Noah Beery Jr. | Norman Fell | Gordon Polk | Hope Summers | Ray Teal | Renee Godfrey | Florence Eldridge | John Alban | Leon Alton | Don Ames | Don Anderson | Eddie Baker | Frank Baker | John Barton | Brandon Beach | Gail Bonney | Chet Brandenburg | Brad Brown | Ralph Bucko | George Calliga | Dick Cherney | Oliver Cross | Jack Daly | Jack Deery | Lester Dorr | George Dunn | Donald Elson | Adolph Faylauer | Duke Fishman | Raoul Freeman | David Fresco | Kay Garrett | Richard George | Helen Gereghty | Joseph Glick | James Gonzalez | Signe Hack | Stuart Hall | Joseph Hamilton | Sam Harris | Earle Hodgins | Tex Holden | Wendell Holmes | Shep Houghton | Colin Kenny | Johnny Kern | Perk Lazelle | King Lockwood | Hank Mann | Sandee Marriott | Thomas Martin | Harp McGuire | Frank Mills | Hans Moebus | Robert Osterloh | Stephen Paylow | Bob Perry | Joe Ploski | 'Snub' Pollard | Paul Power | Waclaw Rekwart | John Rice | Addison Richards | Leoda Richards | Robert Robinson | Scott Seaton | Leslie Sketchley | Stephen Soldi | Rudy Sooter | Bert Stevens | Hal Taggart | Harry Tenbrook | George Tracy | Charles Wagenheim | Justice Watson | Will Wright