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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792851622
ISBN: 0792851625
Label: United Artists
Manufacturer: United Artists
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: United Artists
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 1683
Studio: United Artists
Theatrical Release Date: November 01, 1960
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Description:
Two-time Best Actor OscarÂ(r) winners* Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go toe-to-toe in this thrilling re-creation of the most titanic courtroom battle of the century. Garnering four Academy AwardÂ(r) nominations**, including Best Actor (Tracy), and featuring Gene Kelly in a rare, critically-acclaimed dramatic role, Inherit the Wind is powerful, provocative cinema and 'a heaping measure of entertainment' (The Hollywood Reporter)!The controversial subject of evolution versus creation causes two polar opposites to engage in one explosive battle of beliefs. Attorney Clarence Darrow (Tracy) faces off against fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan (March) in a small Tennessee town where a teacher has been brought to trial for teaching Darwinism. Let the trial begin...and watch the sparks fly!
Amazon.com essential video:
Two of the juiciest roles in the American theater fall at the feet of Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, and both men make a meal of it. Inherit the Wind, based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, that galvanizing legal drama of the 1920s. When a young Tennessee teacher is prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school, he receives unwanted public attention as well as the legal advice of a giant. Tracy plays the role based on Clarence Darrow, the eloquent defense attorney, and March storms his way through a part based on Williams Jennings Bryan, the failed presidential candidate (and famed orator) who prosecuted the case. Gene Kelly plays a character based on the acid-penned H.L. Mencken, reporting on the trial and caustically commenting on the absurdity of the human animal. Stanley (Judgment at Nuremberg) Kramer's direction is not especially subtle, but the verbal fireworks unleashed during the trial sequences are still stirring. Even the different styles of the actors are intriguing: March is all mannerism and false padding around the belly, while Tracy does his patented naturalistic grumbling. It would be nice if this story were a quaint period piece, but its issues and arguments keep reemerging in the headlines with each new generation. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 2.5 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
Inherit the Wind has interesting scenes, but consistently undermines them by piling on so much drama and excess that by the end it merely seems to consist of people yelling at each other; the film isn't terrible, but it doesn't make the most of a promising cast or subject.
Rating:  - Timeless
The cast is incomparable; when Gene Kelly is only a supporting actor, you know that something special is in store for you.The camera work is wonderful.The dialogue is truly memorable.One can quote Tracy from any one of a number of scenes.
And the theme is VERY much current and provocative.Let this movie prod your thoughts about what happens when Biblical texts are misused as scientific material for science classes in school instead of as shapers of faith in an OT class in a ... Read More
Rating: - A Black and White Movie For a Technicolor World
This is the second in my "series" of films for which I am truly thankful, the problem with that being that it is the first one that most of you will be reading. Such is life. In my first review, which was actually more of a thumbnail appreciation of the original production of THE THING (a film that literally shaped the rest of my life), I mentioned that there was another film that had taught me an important lesson at the age of 12, one that I hope I will carry with me for the rest of my life. Well, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent film, if a big over-acted
This is an excellent adaption of a great American play, although a bit over-acted, especially by Fredric March. There is absolutely nothing subtle about his performance. I also found Gene Kelly's performance to be quite good. I think his character should be found to be just as annoying as March's, just as self-righteous in his own way. The ending of the movie is one of my favorites... with Drummond slapping the 2 books together as 1 when he walks out. That to me is the most important message of the ... Read More
Rating: - So tense, you can cut the atmosphere with a knife
I've been watching a number of Spencer Tracy films recently, having become friendly with someone who knew him. His warm yet laconic style brings something special to every part, and this great movie is no exception. Court dramas have a special appeal of their own and for some reason this reminds me of A Few Good Men -maybe because the action centres around the unexpected performance of a key witness. I especially like the informal style of the 1920s courthouse, with bias on view throughout the whole ... Read More
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