Overview - Inherit the Wind

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 128 minutes

Homepage: Inherit the Wind

Budget

$2,000,000.00

Revenue

$2,000,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Italiano

Production companies

  • Name: Stanley Kramer Productions

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: United Artists

    Production country United States of America

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: 0.5472

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  • Name: Fredric March

    Character: Matthew Harrison Brady

    Popularity: 0.3629

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  • Name: Gene Kelly

    Character: E.K. Hornbeck

    Popularity: 0.7455

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  • Name: Dick York

    Character: Bertram T. Cates

    Popularity: 0.499

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  • Name: Donna Anderson

    Character: Rachel Brown

    Popularity: 0.301

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  • Name: Harry Morgan

    Character: Judge Mel

    Popularity: 0.7985

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  • Name: Claude Akins

    Character: Rev. Jeremiah Brown

    Popularity: 1.1344

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  • Name: Elliott Reid

    Character: Prosecutor Tom Davenport

    Popularity: 0.3999

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