Inherit the Wind

The signage on the buildings shown through the windows behind the judge's bench changes from day to day during the trial (i.

the "hot and cold" sign).

As Matthew Brady ends his arrival speech to a crowd of supporters on the street, the 'old time religion' song is sung by the throng, but their lips are completely out of sync with the soundtrack.

During the courtroom examination of Matthew Harrison Brady by Henry Drummond, Drummond shows Brady a 10 million-year-old rock, which he places on the judge's desk.

Later in the scene, the rock is back in his hand, and when he dismisses Brady, he places it back on the desk without ever having picked it back up.

While questioning Matthew Harrison Brady on the stand, Henry Drummond refers to Charles Darwin's book as "The Origin of the Species".

The book's title is actually "On the Origin of Species" (or, more popularly, "The Origin of Species").

During the trial, 'Gene Kelly (I)' (qv) hands the defendant a drawing of a stick figure swinging on a gallows.

The defendant wrinkles the paper in his hands immediately.

The scene changes and the defendant is holding a cup and not the piece of paper.

When the Bradys walk toward the hotel porch after the revival meeting, the lights and buildings of the town are clearly seen behind them.

But when Drummond leaves Brady on the porch a few minutes later, the scene behind them, facing the same direction, is completely blank beyond a few bushes.

The Scopes trial occurred in 1925.

Gene Kelly's character calls the town "the buckle of the Bible Belt", but the term "Bible Belt" did not appear until 1926 when it is thought to have been coined by H.

Mencken.

While Archbishop Ussher did theorize the time when the earth was created, the time and date that Brady quoted was by Dr.

John Lightfoot, not Archbishop Ussher.

Stanley Kramer is a little-talked about but excellent filmmaker that confirmed his talent here in the Spencer Tracy vehicle Inherit the wind. The whole film takes place in essentially one courtroom as religious and atheist lawyers battle it out over the case of a teacher accused of teaching evolution.

For some 75 years, the over-conservative scientific community left an issue unresolved - the legality of teaching scientific truth.Darwin was himself largely untrammelled by the conflict between scientific revelation and religious dogma.

"Inherit the Wind" contains great actors and a message. The plot is not complicated - which is normal and maybe good when it is based on a real historical event.

What a movie! Brilliant acting, ingenious cinematography, and based on true events, although the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

I don't feel about this film the way one is clearly expected to. Brieflt, in the courtroom scene where a great victory for ,"peace , jusice and the American way," is supposed to occur.

Stanley Kramer directed this courtroom drama that is loosely based on the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 tried by Clarence Darrow(for the defense) and William Jennings Bryan (for the prosecution). Here, they are renamed Henry Drummond(played by Spencer Tracy) and Mathew Harrison Brady(played by Frederic March).

Those who trouble their own house shall inherit the wind, and those who dare to think differently from their own house shall inherit something worse. A small-town teacher in Tennessee of the 1920s brings science and evolution into the classroom and runs afoul of both the law and the bible in the process.

One of the many pertinent questions that was brought to the table (or, should I say "courtroom") in 1960s "Inherit The Wind" was - "Can an atheist believe in god?"Well - For you to find out what is concluded about an atheist embracing Christianity, you'll just have to watch this "Evolution Vs.

This version of the famous Lawrence and Lee Broadway success is now considered a classic film--and rightly so. However, in the years since its release there have been three more made for TV film versions of Inherit the Wind (IW).