Inherit the Wind (1960)

Name: Inherit the Wind
Genre: Drama
Released: 1960-07-07
Rating: 3.8

Directed by Stanley Kramer

• Written by Nedrick Young , Harold Jacob Smith , Jerome Lawrence

"It’s all about the fabulous “Monkey Trial” that rocked America!"

⭐ 3.8 / 5 (498 votes) ⏱️ 128 min 🎬 Drama

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'Rating Consensus & Critics'

Live Multi-Source

– / 5

MATCHCUT Members

– / 10

IMDb Audience

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TOMATOMETER Critics

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METASCORE Top Critics

7.6 / 10

TMDB (498)

Ratings Breakdown:

498 TMDB votes

0.5 Stars 'Community distribution populates with member logs' 5.0 Stars

Synopsis

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.