Inherit the Wind

Stanley Kramer directs this adaptation of a stage play based on the Scopes 'Monkey trial' of 1925 starring Gene Kelly and Spencer Tracy.

When Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram T. Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, the prosecuting counsel appointed is fundamentalist politician Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March).

While Brady stirs the town up into a religious fervour against Cates, the liberal Henry Drummond (Tracy) earns the wrath of the townsfolk by defending the teacher.

Cynical journalist E.K. Hornbeck (Kelly) is sent to cover the trial, which takes place in a sweltering courtroom where passions run as high as the temperature.