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📊 Film Specifications
Director Stanley Kramer
Writer Nedrick Young (Screenplay), Harold Jacob Smith (Screenplay), Jerome Lawrence (Theatre Play), Robert Edwin Lee (Theatre Play)
Release Date July 7, 1960
Runtime 128 min (2h 8m)
Country United States of America
Language EN
Budget $2,000,000
Box Office $2,000,000
Studios Stanley Kramer Productions • United Artists
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Directed by Stanley Kramer
"It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!"
⭐ 3.8 / 5 (498 votes) ⏱️ 128 min 🎬 Drama
Ratings Breakdown:
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Synopsis
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.
Top Cast & Filmmakers
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Stanley Kramer
Director
Screenplay Nedrick Young
Screenplay
Screenplay Harold Jacob Smith
Screenplay
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