Inherit the Wind(Movie, 1960)

Name: Inherit the Wind
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1960
Duration: T02:8:00
Rating: 3.9

2h 8min | Genres: Drama, History

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 169 votes)

Inherit the Wind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady. It also features Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Florence Eldridge, Jimmy Boyd and Go... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Inherit the Wind

Silver Nugget for The Best Foreign Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About Inherit the Wind

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Tennessee

Made by: United Artists, Stanley Kramer Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)

Translated into 19 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date CA: 07/07/1960

Appearing Characters: Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, H. L. Mencken, Mary Baird Bryan, John T. Scopes, John T. Raulston

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Florence Eldridge, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell, Will Wright, Earle Hodgins, Lester Dorr, Frank Mills, Snub Pollard, Charles Wagenheim, Colin Kenny, Harry Tenbrook, Hope Summers, Ray Teal, Jimmy Boyd, Renee Godfrey

Director: Stanley Kramer

Producer: Stanley Kramer

Screenwriter: Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith

Film Editor: Frederic Knudtson

Director of Photography: Ernest Laszlo

Composer: Ernest Gold

Production Designer: Rudolph Sternad

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Heredarás el viento"

"O Vento Será Tua Herança"

"Le souffle de la haine"

"Kdo seje vítr"

"Wer den Wind sät"

"Solen stod stille"

"La herencia del viento"

"Joka tuuleen kylvää"

"Le procès de singe"

"Klironomiste ton anemo"

"Kto Sieje Wiatr"

Keywords: evolution, judiciary, trial, courtroom drama, scopes monkey trial, teacher, courtroom, rhetoric, politician, lawyer

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Inherit the Wind(Movie, 1960)

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