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Nostalgic Movie Night ~ Inherit the Wind
November 22, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation’s leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.
Release date: November 1960 (USA)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Producer: Stanley Kramer
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor, MORE
Screenplay: Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
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