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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  Spencer Tracy

  Henry Drummond
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  Fredric March

  Matthew Harrison Brady
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  Gene Kelly

  E.K. Hornbeck
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  Dick York

  Bertram T. Cates
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  Donna Anderson

  Rachel Brown
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  Harry Morgan

  Judge Mel
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  Claude Akins

  Rev. Jeremiah Brown
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  Elliott Reid

  Prosecutor Tom Davenport
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  Paul Hartman

  Bailiff Mort Meeker
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  Philip Coolidge

  Mayor Jason Carter