Overview - Inherit the Wind

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.

Cast

• Name: Spencer Tracy

  Character: Henry Drummond

  Popularity: 1.6521

  

• Name: Fredric March

  Character: Matthew Harrison Brady

  Popularity: 1.5898

  

• Name: Gene Kelly

  Character: E.K. Hornbeck

  Popularity: 2.317

  

• Name: Dick York

  Character: Bertram T. Cates

  Popularity: 1.1607

  

• Name: Donna Anderson

  Character: Rachel Brown

  Popularity: 1.1632

  

• Name: Harry Morgan

  Character: Judge Mel

  Popularity: 2.2848

  

• Name: Claude Akins

  Character: Rev. Jeremiah Brown

  Popularity: 2.1578

  

• Name: Elliott Reid

  Character: Prosecutor Tom Davenport

  Popularity: 1.7092