Matthew Harrison Brady
Kirk Douglas
Matthew Harrison Brady

“The great minds of their day. The most famous court battle of the century. The explosive issue that won't go away!”
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Inherit the Wind (1988) Promo
Matthew Harrison Brady
Kirk Douglas
Matthew Harrison Brady
Harry Drummond
Jason Robards
Harry Drummond
E.K. Hornbeck
Darren McGavin
E.K. Hornbeck
Judge
John Harkins
Judge
Rachel Brown
Megan Follows
Rachel Brown
Bertram Cates
Kyle Secor
Bertram Cates
Reverend Brown
Michael Ensign
Reverend Brown
Mayor
Don Hood
Mayor
Lucy Brady
Jean Simmons
Lucy Brady
Davenport
Josh Clark
Davenport
Meeker
Scotch Byerley
Meeker
Dunlap
Ebbe Roe Smith
Dunlap
"Inherit the Wind" is a well acted and well staged period piece of the strength and story consciousness it is hard to find today. It has a truly amazing standard of writing which is of such a consistent high calibre it is difficult to imagine just how it could be possible to make a weak film out of it. Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards have an incredible amount of thought provoking material to work with and Robards is at his unassuming best throughout from his reminiscing about a rocking horse from his childhood called "Golden Dancer" to his increasingly explosive and impeccably paced questioning of Douglas based upon some random excerpts selected from the Holy Bible which eventually reveals Brady's unshatterable faith to still be intact, but his reasoning in such matters to be flawed and often floundering.
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