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Inherit the Wind

Release Date:October 12, 1960

Running Time:128 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gene Kelly Dick York Donna Anderson Harry Morgan Claude Akins Elliott Reid Paul Hartman Philip Coolidge Jimmy Boyd Noah Beery Jr.

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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.

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