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Inherit the Wind (1960)
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Two of the juiciest roles in the American theater fall at the feet of Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, and both men make a meal of it. Inherit the Wind, based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a slightly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, that galvanizing legal drama of the 1920s. When a young Tennessee teacher is prosecuted for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school, he receives unwanted public attention as well as the legal advice of a giant. Tracy plays the role based on Clarence Darrow, the eloquent defense attorney, and March storms his way through a part based on Williams Jennings...
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The early 1920s found the very social fabric of American culture to be in chaotic conflict. While the traditionalists worried that everything held sacred and valuable to American culture was coming to an abrupt end, the intellectualists no longer asked whether society would approve of their behavior, only whether their...
(complete Inherit the Wind review by David Hurlbert)
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