Inherit the Wind ★★★½ 1960 Powerful courtroom drama, based on the Broadway play, is actually a fictionalized version of the infamous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Tracy is the defense attorney for the schoolteacher on trial for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a group of students in a small town ruled by religion. March is the prosecutor seeking to put the teacher behind bars and restore religion to the schools. 128m/B VHS, DVD, Wide. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry (Henry) Morgan, Elliott Reid, Philip Coolidge, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell;
Director:
Stanley Kramer;
Writer:
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith;
Writer:
Ernest Laszlo;
Cameo:
Ernest Gold. Berlin Intl. Film Fest. '60: Actor (March).
