Inherit the Wind (1960)

Name: Inherit the Wind
Director: Stanley Kramer
Genre: Drama
Released: 1960
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 7.655
Cast: Claude Akins, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Elliott Reid, Fredric March

Drama

7.7 (427 votes)

2h 8m

Overview

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.