Inherit the Wind Page #2

Synopsis: Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925 "Scopes monkey trial" with debates between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan taken largely from the transcripts.
Director(s): Stanley Kramer
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NOT RATED
Year:
1960
128 min
4,709 Views


Yeah.

Oh, Bert, you don't mind, do you.

Just for the looks of it

Can't tell who it might be.

Sure. Don't worry about it, Mort.

All right,

All right.

Who is it

Mort

Rachel.

Come on in.

Ahh, you got a present for Bert, huh

Mort, don't let my father know

I came here.

Well, the Reverend don't tell me

his business.

I don't see why I should tell him mine

Is Bert all right

Oh, of course he's...

The safest place in the world's in the jail.

Come on in. Come on.

Tell them you're sorry.

Tell them it was all a mistake.

Please te...

tell them if they let my body out of jail

I'd lock up my mind

Could you stand that, Rachel

at least we'd be together.

It wouldn't be the...

It wouldn't be the same.

Rachel, do you remember

those warm, dark nights down

by the riverbank,

just watching the water,

wondering about the... the

miracle of it,

wondering what the stars were for...

what's on the other side of the moon

There'd be no more of that, Rach.

We could still have that.

No, we couldn't.

That would be in the locked-off part...

for both of us.

Well...

So, this is where the fate of learning

will be decided for the next 10,000 years.

O tempora, o mores.

Well, I see we have

both beauty and biology on our side.

Who are you

This your writing

Yes.

This is mine.

Hornbeck. E.K. Hornbeck,

Baltimore Herald.

I've been waiting to hear from you.

Read it.

My typewriter's been singing

a sweet, sad song about the

Hillsboro heretic...

B. Cates, latter-Day Dreyfus

Ok. Romeo with a biology bo

want a bite

Oh, don't worry.

I'm not the serpent, little eva.

This isn't from the tree of knowledge.

Oh, no.

You won't find one growing

in "Heavenly Hillsboro. "

A few ignorance bushes, perhaps,

but no tree of knowledge.

Ask adam.

You make me sound like a martyr.

You could be.

Martyrs always have a point to prove,

and so do you,

but you haven't won your halo yet.

that won't come until they've tossed you

into the arena...

with the lion.

You mean Brady

I don't want Bert to be a martyr.

What are you trying to prove, anyway

Rach, I'm not trying to prove anything.

All I want to do is teach my students

that man just wasn't planted here

like a Geranium in a flowerpot

that life comes from a long miracle.

It just didn't take 7 days.

But it's against the law.

a schoolteacher's a public servant.

He should do what the law and

the school board want him to.

Has the accused anything

to say in his own defense

If not, I sentence you to life

as a public servant,

a silent butler in the service of

your school board.

Wastebaskets for ideas on sale

in the outer lobby.

I don't see anything funny in this,

Mr. Hornbeck.

Objection sustained.

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Nedrick Young

Nedrick Young (March 23, 1914 – September 16, 1968), also known by the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas, was an actor and screenwriter often blacklisted during the 1950s and 1960s. He is credited with writing the screenplay for Jailhouse Rock in 1957, which starred Elvis Presley. Young was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition to screenwriting, he also took on an acting role in various feature-length films during the period 1943–1966. He was married to actress Elizabeth MacRae.Young died from a heart attack at the age of 54. more…

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