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- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 8 m
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 8 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 8 m
- 1960
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 8 m
Inherit the Wind
75
6.6
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Summary 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.
Directed By: Stanley Kramer
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
75
63% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It is Inherit the Wind among all of Kramer's films that seems most relevant and still generates controversy.
Inherit The Wind acutely captures the farcical Monkey Trial and offers the awesome talents of two double-Oscar winners, Tracy and March, in their only film together.
A searing indictment of religious fundamentalism and anti-intellectualism. Inherit the Wind’s relevance continues beyond its immediate parallels with McCarthyism.
This is a rousing and fascinating motion picture. Producer-director Stanley Kramer has held the action in tight check.
Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists, but rather let down by Kelly's inadequacy as the cynical journalist who is comfortably denounced as the real villain of the piece.
The case itself had so many dramatic elements that the movie can't help holding our attention, but it's a very crude piece of work, totally lacking in subtlety; what is meant to be a courtroom drama of ideas comes out as a caricature of a drama of ideas, and maddeningly, while watching we can't be sure what is based on historical fact and what is invention.
Spencer Tracy does his cuddly curmudgeon turn as Clarence Darrow; it's a lazy, vague performance, but its wit provides the only crack of light in the film's somber, gray overcast.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
6.6
71% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
6.6
71% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
12% Mixed
2 Ratings
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18% Negative
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 4 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
