Inherit the Wind

It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!

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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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Creators

Stanley Kramer

director

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Nedrick Young

writer

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Harold Jacob Smith

writer

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Robert Edwin Lee

writer

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Jerome Lawrence

writer

Cast

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Spencer Tracy actor Fredric March actor Gene Kelly actor Dick York actor

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Donna Anderson actor Harry Morgan actor Claude Akins actor Elliott Reid actor Paul Hartman actor Philip Coolidge actor

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Jimmy Boyd actor Noah Beery, Jr. actor Norman Fell actor

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Gordon Polk actor

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Hope Summers actor Ray Teal actor

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Renée Godfrey actor

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Florence Eldridge actor

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John Alban actor

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Leon Alton actor