1960 • 128 m
Directed by Stanley Kramer
With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Florence Eldridge, Harry Morgan

In a small Southern town, a school teacher, Bertram Cates, is about to stand trial. His offense? Introducing to his students to Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The town is excited because appearing on behalf of the prosecution will be the famous Matthew Harrison Brady, a noted statesman and failed presidential candidate. A staunch foe of Darwinism and a Biblical scholar, Brady will teach the naive teacher Cates the error of his ways.

A surprise is in store for Brady, however. The teacher's defense is to be handled by the equally well-known Henry Drummond, one of America's most controversial legal minds and a long-standing acquaintance and adversary of Brady. An arrogant and influential newspaperman, E.K. Hornbeck of the Baltimore Herald, has personally seen to it that Drummond will come to town to represent the teacher in this case, and that his newspaper and a radio network will provide nationwide coverage of what began as a minor legal matter.

Adapted from Wikipedia

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