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.
Director: Ivan Volkman, Sam Freedle, Stanley Kramer
Actors: Claude Akins, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Elliott Reid, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Spencer Tracy