Inherit the Wind

1960年 • 127 分鐘

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Inspired by the real-life "Monkey Trial" in 1925, where Tennessee schoolteacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law. Scopes deliberately courted arrest to challenge what he and his supporters saw as an unjust law, and the trial became a national cause when The Baltimore Sun hired attorney Clarence Darrow to defend Scopes. The prosecuting attorney was crusading politician William Jennings Bryan, once a serious contender for the Presidency, now a relic of a past era. While Bryan won the case as expected, he and his fundamentalist backers were held up to public ridicule by the cagey Darrow. In the play and film versions of Inherit the Wind, the names and places are changed, but the basic chronology was retained, along with most of the original court transcripts. John Scopes becomes Bertram Cates (Dick York); Clarence Darrow is Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy); William Jennings Bryan is Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March).

評分和評論

This film changed my life. Before I was a wavering Christian who was struggling with a rebelling conscience about Christianity and feeling I was doing something wrong for thinking for myself. However, this brilliant play with its wisdom expressed through master thespians like Spencer Tracy and Fredric March showed me that I had every right to come to my own conclusions. For that, I am forever grateful to them and Stanley Kramer for setting me free to realize what is a greater monument than a cathedral and how the freedom to think is a truly precious blessing. With a masterful film like this, you owe to yourself to discover what it can show you.

A pathetic movie attempting to rewrite the events about the Scopes Trial. John Scopes in reality lost the trial.

the whole family would watch when aired in 50-60s.