Two-time Best Actor winners Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the twentieth century. Garnering four Academy Award nominations including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically acclaimed dramatic role, Inherit the Wind is powerful, provocative cinema and a helping measure of entertainment. The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs. Attorney Henry Drummond (Tracy) faces off against fundamentalist leader Matthew Harrison Brady (March) in a small Tennessee town where a teacher has been brought to trial for teaching Darwinism. Let the trial begin ...and watch the sparks fly!
Directed by
Stanley Kramer
Written by
Jerome Lawrence (play) and Robert E. Lee (play) Nedrick Young (screenplay) originally as Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (screenplay)
Starring
Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond); Fredric March (Matthew Harrison Brady); Gene Kelly (E. K. Hornbeck); Dick York (Bertram T. Cates); Donna Anderson (Rachel Brown); Harry Morgan (Judge Mel); Claude Akins (Rev. Jeremiah Brown); Elliott Reid (Prosecutor Tom Davenport); Paul Hartman (Deputy Horace Meeker (bailiff)); Philip Coolidge (Mayor Jason Carter); Jimmy Boyd (Howard (biology student)); Noah Beery Jr. (John Stebbins); Norman Fell (WGN Chicago Radio Broadcaster); Gordon Polk (George Sillers (juror accepted)); Hope Summers (Mrs. Krebs (righteous townswoman)). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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