Inherit the Wind

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

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  Stanley Kramer
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  Ivan Volkman
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  Sam Freedle
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  Herman Shumlin
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  Leonard Kunody

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  Spencer Tracy
  Henry Drummond
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  Fredric March
  Matthew Harrison Brady
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  Gene Kelly
  E.K. Hornbeck
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  Dick York
  Bertram T. Cates
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  Donna Anderson
  Rachel Brown
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  Harry Morgan
  Judge Mel
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  Claude Akins
  Rev. Jeremiah Brown
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  Elliott Reid
  Prosecutor Tom Davenport
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  Paul Hartman
  Bailiff Mort Meeker
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  Philip Coolidge
  Mayor Jason Carter
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  Jimmy Boyd
  Howard
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  Noah Beery Jr.
  John Stebbins
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  Norman Fell
  WGN Radio Technician
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  Gordon Polk
  George Sillers
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  Hope Summers
  Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman
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  Ray Teal
  Jessie H. Dunlap
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  Renée Godfrey
  Mrs. Stebbins
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  Florence Eldridge
  Sarah Brady
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  John Alban
  Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
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  Leon Alton
  Townsman (uncredited)