Inherit the wind / Stanley Kramer presents a United Artists release ; screenplay by Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith ; produced and directed by Stanley Kramer.
Publisher:
Kino Lorber,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based upon the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Originally released in 1960 as motion picture. Includes trailer. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claud Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Jimmy Boyd, Norman Fell, Noa Berry, Jr., Hope Summers.
Summary:
In 1925 attorney Clarence Darrow battles fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan in a Tennessee courtroom when schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution.
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