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Inherit the Wind
Release Date: July 07, 1960
Year | : | 1960 |
Slogan | : | «It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!» |
Genres | : | Drama |
Production Companies | : | Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists |
Director | : | Stanley Kramer |
Producers | : | Lynn Stalmaster, Stanley Kramer, James Lister, Herman Shumlin, Clem Beauchamp |
Writers | : | Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee |
RunTime | : | 128 mins. |
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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