Inherit the Wind

Starring: Tracy, Spencer and March, Fredric

Product Description

Producer-director Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind (1960) is a classic courtroom drama based on the real-life Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925. Here, a Clarence Darrow-like defense attorney (Spencer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: June 2015
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Kino Video
• Director: Kramer, Stanley
• Starring: Tracy, Spencer, March, Fredric
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

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,"