| | Inherit The Wind DVD
| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Suspense Videos, Recommended, Classic, True Story, Law/Lawyers, Reporters | | Starring | Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Harry Morgan, Fredric March, Donna Anderson, Dick York, Elliot Reid, Florence Eldridge | | Director | Stanley Kramer | | Cinematographer | Ernest Laszlo | | Composer | Ernest Gold | | Editor | Frederic Knudtson | | Producer | Stanley Kramer | | Production Designer | Rudolph Sternad | | Screenwriter | Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith |
Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools.
Bertram T. Cates is arrested and put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in his classroom. The incident causes a furor in the religious southern community he lives in and Matthew Harrison Brady, a famous fundamentalist attorney, arrives to prosecute the young teacher. Luckily for Cates, the equally-acclaimed lawyer Henry Drummond agrees to defend him.
As a result, the two master attorneys square off in the courtroom while the teacher's life hangs in the balance. A teacher is jailed for teaching evolution in the South bringing two legal giants, one an athiest and one a creationist, to battle for more than the teacher's fate in a sweltering southern courtroom. This first rate drama was based on the real "Scopes Trial" in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant were the attorneys. Gene Kelly plays H.L. Mencken. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actor--Spencer Tracy, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Florence Eldridge, who plays Fredric March's devoted wife in the film, was the actor's real-life wife. This was the seventh movie they appeared in together.
The film and the play it was adapted from were based on the real-life 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial that took place in Dayton, Tennessee. Henry Drummond, Matthew Harrison Brady, reporter E. K. Hornbeck and teacher Bertram T. Cates were modeled after Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Baltimore reporter H. L. Mencken and teacher John T. Scopes, respectively. The trial was labeled the "Monkey Trial" by some of the country's newspapers because of the concept of evolution which was at issue.
Screenwriter Nathan E. Douglas also goes by the name Nedrick Young.
A Lomitas production.
The film was remade for TV in 1988, with Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards in the Fredric March and Spencer Tracy roles.
The play "Inherit the Wind" was produced and directed on stage by Herman Shumlin. Inherit The Wind | List Price | $14.98 (You save $4.49) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1960 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  28181  | | CD Universe Part number | 7434093 | | Catalog number | 108198 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 24, 2007 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 127 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Special Edition; Black & White; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | B&W; Widescreen; Special Edition; Black & White; Dubbed; Subtitled; Cliff Notes Edition |
Inherit The Wind Movie Review  The answer is in Genesis!!
This most dramatic movie centres around the question of "Creation"! Did God create the universe or Darwin's theory of evolution is the true one? If
Adam and Eve were the first humanes on Earth, then where did Caine find a wife??!! But if you read the book of Genesis carefully you can find the answer there!! God did create humanes before Adam and Eve, but they were not dwelling in the Garden of Eden!! Fredric March could not reply to this question, and for some strange reason the writer(s) of the screenplay ignored it, and thus the teacher was acquitted!!!!
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This is one of my all time favorites and I never get tired of watching it. In my opinion, it's rare to see performances finer than those displayed by Spencer Tracy and Fredric March in this movie. These performances are "perfect". The supporting cast is excellent.
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Superb acting is worth the price of admission.
With powerhouses like Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly, you can’t miss. The courtroom confrontations between Tracy and March will keep you riveted to your seat in this intense drama. No special effects in this movie. Just a lot of incredible acting from the above three as well as the supporting cast. Made during the time when actors could act and directors knew how to direct, this movie is unbelievably realistic. Has all the intensity of “The Grapes Of Wrath” and then some. If you like dramas from Hollywood’s Golden Era and you like them hot, look no further.
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Inherit The Wind DVD Region 1
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Mono - English, French, Spanish
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Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
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