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Inherit the Wind, American film drama, released in 1960, that was inspired by the famous Scopes Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee high-school teacher was arrested and prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin ’s theory of evolution. (From left) Hope Summers, Gene Kelly, and Spencer Tracy in Inherit the Wind (1960), directed by Stanley Kramer.
Like Lawrence and Lee’s Inherit the Wind, Miller’s plays incorporate a great deal of contemporary speech patterns, and they dig deep into the mythos of American culture prominent during the 1950s—the idea that post-World War II American society was a purely positive, progressive place, one in which democracy, capitalism, and the nuclear family were the established and central social ...
Inherit the Wind, a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which a Tennessee teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution. The play was first performed in 1955, during the height of the Cold War and the Red Scare, and it was adapted into a film in 1960 by Stanley Kramer ...
Inherit the Wind. Page 1 of 6, 6 total items. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. A biblical orator (Kirk Douglas) opposes a liberal lawyer (Jason Robards) defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the ...
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Inherit the Wind is a play dramatizing the Hillsboro Monkey Trial, in a small American town called Hillsboro, state unnamed, in the 1950s. This trial is based on some historical facts of the Scopes Monkey Trial, which occurred in Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925, and which brought William Jennings Bryant, Clarence Darrow, and H. L. Mencken—a famous politician, lawyer, and reporter, respectively ...
29 de may. de 1999 · Inherit the Wind: Directed by Daniel Petrie. With Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Lane Smith, Tom Everett Scott. Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Summaries. Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes.
