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Features: DVD, Widescreen, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Theatrical Version, Trailers
Two-time Best Actor Oscar winners Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling recreation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. Garnering four Academy Award nominations including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically acclaimed dramatic role, Inherit The Wind is powerful, provocative cinema and "a heaping measure of entertainment" (The Hollywood Reporter)! The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs. Attorney Clarence Darrow (Tracy) faces off against fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan (March) in a small Tennessee town where a teacher has been brought to trial for teaching Darwinism. Let the trial begin...and watch the sparks fly!
"An acting tour de force..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"One of the most brilliant and engrossing displays of acting ever witnessed!" The New York Times
Editor's Note
A teacher is jailed for teaching evolution in the South bringing two legal giants, one an athiest and one a creationist, to battle for more than the teacher's fate in a sweltering southern courtroom. This first rate drama was based on the real "Scopes Trial" in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant were the attorneys. Gene Kelly plays H.L. Mencken. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actor--Spencer Tracy, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Plot Summary
This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools.| Bertram T. Cates is arrested and put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in his classroom. The incident causes a furor in the religious southern community he lives in and Matthew Harrison Brady, a famous fundamentalist attorney, arrives to prosecute the young teacher. Luckily for Cates, the equally-acclaimed lawyer Henry Drummond agrees to defend him.| As a result, the two master attorneys square off in the courtroom while the teacher's life hangs in the balance.
| Features | Subtitles: English, French | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Version, Enhanced For 16X9 TVs | | Audio: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 12/11/2001 |
| Running Time: 128 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1960 | | Catalog ID: 1002740 | | UPC: 00027616869388 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1961) | | | Spencer Tracy, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Ernest Laszlo, Nominee, Best Cinematography--Black And White | | | Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium |
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