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Dieguito
Great trial! Spencer Tracy's performance is as good as in The Judgment of Nuremberg.
BadFluffy
Wonderful movie. Sadly still very much current. Beautiful writing and performances.
To think it wasn't even nominated for an Oscar for best movie, shows how powerful lobbies were even then.
Siskoid
The sad thing about Inherit the Wind is that it's still relevant today. The 1960 courtroom drama, based on a 1955 play, based on the true events of the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, changed the names and details, but fictionalized though it was, still used dialog straight from the trial itself. One would hope the actual events weren't so theatrical (the attorneys make so many speeches, the film can skip closing arguments), but they apparently were, right down to the defense surprise-calling the Bible-thumping prosecutor to testify. In 1925, it was about whether or not science and the Bible were irreconcilable (Fundamentalism vs. Modernism). In 1955, it was really about McCarthyism and the thought police of the day. By 1960, it takes a more universal bent and promotes humanism over organized religion. Watching it in 2019, I feel like we have gone back, and the Fundamentalism shown in the film is today's. The arguments are familiar, as are both the fervor of the sincere believers and the hypocrisies of those who would capitalize on it. Even if it were a story only relevant to its time, Inherit the Wind is still an intense drama, featuring a blazing performance by Spencer Tracy as the Clarence Darrow stand-in, and a pretty cool one by Gene Kelly as a snarky reporter through whom we get some cutting comedy as well. The ever-socially conscious director Stanley Kramer brings it all to life beautifully, with some flair here and there, and a lot of texture.