INHERIT THE WIND
"INHERIT THE WIND" (1960)
SYNOPSIS: "In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head-to-head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense."
STARRING: Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Aikens and Norman Fell.
SCREENPLAY: Nedrick Young (originally as Nathan E. Douglas) and
Harold Jacob Smith. It was based on the stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kramer
ACADEMY AWARDS: It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards but did not win anything.
OTHER AWARDS & HONORS: It was nominated for 10 additional awards, by various organizations and entities, and won 3 of them.
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