![]() Spencer Tracy and Fredric March star as Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, thinly veiled depictions of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, the two actual legal lions-and former friends-who faced off in the Scopes case. Lee, Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925, dramatizing the clash between intellectual freedom and religious fundamentalism in the trial of a high school teacher jailed for lecturing his class on Darwin’s theory of evolution. ![]() This week’s classic is Inherit the Wind, the 1960 courtroom drama directed by Stanley Kramer.Īdapted from the long-running hit Broadway play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. ![]()
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