Inherit the Wind
7.7/10
Release: 07/07/1960
Duration: 2h 8m
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.
Country: United States of America
Language: Italian, English
Director:Stanley Kramer
Writers
| Screenplay:Harold Jacob Smith
| Screenplay:Nedrick Young
| Theatre Play:Jerome Lawrence
| Theatre Play:Robert Edwin Lee
Production
Stanley Kramer Productions
United Artists
Budget: $2,000,000
Revenue: $2,000,000
