Inherit the Wind

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Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

Cast

  • Spencer Tracy
  • Fredric March
  • Gene Kelly
  • Dick York
  • Donna Anderson
  • Harry Morgan
  • Claude Akins
  • Elliott Reid
  • Paul Hartman
  • Philip Coolidge

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The case itself had so many dramatic elements that the movie can't help holding our attention, but it's a very crude piece of work, totally lacking in subtlety; what is meant to be a courtroom drama of ideas comes out as a caricature of a drama of ideas, and maddeningly, while watching we can't be sure what is based on historical fact and what is invention.

Pauline Kael
The New Yorker