Inherit the Wind

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, et al.

Product Description

A fundamentalist orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a Darwinist teacher in the 1920s South. Directed by Stanley Kramer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• UPC: 027616869388
• Release Date: December 2001
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: MGM/UA
• Director: Stanley Kramer
• Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Elliott Reid, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr.
• Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: bw
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Do not monkey around with religion.

This film is based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee about the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. It is tricky to keep the differences between this play and the real trial apart in one’s mind. Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond) and Fredric March (Matthew Harrison Brady) spar over the legality of the teaching of evolution in Tennessee. This combination is guaranteed to keep you glued to your seat. In this movie, Scopes, while teaching evolution to a high-school biology class, is arrested and placed in jail. Sometimes the other characters get lost in the shuffle, yet one other will show through. That is Gene Kelley who plays E. K. Hornbeck, who reports the trial. I will not give a blow-by-blow of the trial, but to say it gets rather heated and is broken up with several adjournments, with time to reflect on what was said and going to be said. If you are interested in the real thing, then read Scopes Autobiography, “Center of the Storm.” Proverbs 11:29... "HE WHO TROUBLES HIS OWN HOUSE WILL INHERIT THE WIND,"