Inherit the Wind

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Inherit the Wind (1960)

Timing: 2:8 (128 min)

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Release date

1960-07-07

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Stanley Kramer Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$2 000 000

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Director

Stanley Kramer

Actors

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

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Producer

Stanley Kramer, Herman Shumlin

Operator

Ernest Laszlo

Composer

Ernest Gold

Artist

Audition

Lynn Stalmaster, James Lister

Editing

Frederic Knudtson
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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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