Inherit the Wind
It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Produced by Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
A passionate courtroom drama about the collision between science and faith, built on rhetorical combat and ideological conviction rather than intimate character study.
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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