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Summary: A great movie with amazing preformances
Review: This is a fantastic adaption of the Scopes Trial. Spencer Tracy is absolutely amazing as Henry Drumend. Gene Kelly and Dick York are also extremely good. A Must See.
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Summary: An Actor's Seminar
Review: Despite the compelling direction,excellent cinematography, and riviting script, the greatness of "Inherit The Wind" really boils down to the acting. Tracy and March at the peak of their acting powers in this film.It is like watching Ali and Frazier in their primes.Two scenes immediately come to mind. First is the scene in the rocking chair where Tracy tells March about the rocking horse he wished for as a child. When the scene begins and the characters share a mutual understanding the chairs they rock back and forth together, but as the dialog drives them to odds they rock in increasingly different directions. The brilliance here is that their choice was not even a conscious one! And of course the scene with March on the stand and Tracy grilling him is a classic. "Do you think a sponge thinks?" "If God wants a sponge to think....then it thinks." "Well this man wants the same rights as a sponge. He wishes to think!"
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Summary: Note
Review: I loved the movie In response to the prior opinion, it was John Scope's right to teach darwinism, not York's
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. Based on the famous 'Scopes monkey Trial', Spencer Tracey Plays Henry Drummond a lawyer defending Bertram Cates and the right to teach evolution.
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Summary: EVEN MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN IN 1960
Review: When INHERIT THE WIND first came out in 1960, I saw it in my native New York City as a college senior. Having majored in science as a pre-med student, I naively supposed this was an excellent movie about the 1920s. How could I imagine that it would be a harbinger of 2000? Now, we have the Kansas state board of education excluding evolution from public school science classrooms. So then Stanley Kramer's movie was a futuristic film in an early 20th Century setting. Considering this film was made during the communist witch hunting McCarthy era, and now Evil-utionists (using Matthew Harrison Brady's pronunciation) are in season, INHERIT THE WIND is even politically relevant (I almost wrote "correct" but today that word has lost its meaning) today. Now, I am a medical school professor who purchased two video cassettes of this movie right here. I can't stop watching this movie because the excellence of the acting and filmmaking is timelessly exciting. I certainly encourage all of my students and children to see this film for two reasons. The script provides a balanced insight into the personal issues associated with conflicts between scientific and religious (fundamentalist? extremist?) viewpoints; and also these are, even now, contemporary issues playing out in the theopolitical system that American democracy has become. And so Drummond's point to Brady is well taken: " ... does a man have the same right to think as a sponge?" This is still a valid question raised by a truly great, thought provoking and most entertaining American film. [Footnote criticism: Gene Kelly, an otherwise good actor (and certainly great Hollywood dancer), seemed a bit out of place as the cynical newspaper man.]
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Summary: Must see movie
Review: This movie explains that there is a common ground between those who are true believers and skeptics. Whatever your belief is, this movie shows that it's the right of someone to be a free thinker regardless of where the society is heading into. Guys in Kansas, you must watch this movie and let your legislator members how important it is to learn about Evolution.
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Summary: A great version of the play.
Review: The new showtime version is supposed to be good too, but nothing can beat the performances of Spencer Tracy, Fredrick March and Gene Kelly in this one. Don't watch this film expecting a historically accurate depiction of the real Scopes trial. The play was used the trial as a metaphor for McCarthyism and takes a lot of liberties with the facts. For a great look at the real trial, get the book "Summer of the Gods" by Edward Norton.
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Summary: A movie that gives a look at the "moral attitude" of 1925.
Review: This movie shows what the Bible Belt of America believed and stood for during the period. Tracey and March are outstanding in the court scenes and the moral lesson "implied" with the ending is in keeping with the late 1950s. A great movie!
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Summary: Magnificent
Review: After viewing this video, a person would have to be a Calvin Coolidge with a frontal lobotomy not to come away so emotionally drained that he could only hope that recovery would not take too long. As always, Spencer Tracy was a master of timing. When he weighed the Bible in one hand and Darwin's treatise in the other, it was a brethtaking moment to see which one he would choose. He tucked both under his arm at exactly the right split second. A moment sooner and the viewer would not have understood the point; a moment later and the viewer would have been let down by an anticlimax.
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Summary: Well worth watching!
Review: An excellent fictional version of the Scopes trial of 1925, with fine dramatic performances by Frederic March and Spencer Tracy in this black-and-white film. It manages to be sympathetic to both sides, and is thought-provoking.
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