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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
“It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!”
Drama · 2h 08m
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.
Cast
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
Bailiff Mort Meeker
Philip Coolidge
Mayor Jason Carter
Jimmy Boyd
Howard
Noah Beery Jr.
John Stebbins
Crew
- Director
- Stanley Kramer
- Screenplay
- Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
- Director of Photography
- Ernest Laszlo
- Original Music Composer
- Ernest Gold
- Editor
- Frederic Knudtson
- Producer
- Stanley Kramer
Details
- Release date
- 1960-07-07
- Runtime
- 2h 08m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Box office
- $2,000,000