Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- politician
- based on true story
- trial
- teacher
- lawyer
- courtroom
- evolution
- rhetoric
- scopes monkey trial
- judiciary
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Spencer Tracy
Henry Drummond
Fredric March
Matthew Harrison Brady
Gene Kelly
E.K. Hornbeck
Dick York
Bertram T. Cates
- Donna Anderson — Rachel Brown
- Harry Morgan — Judge Mel
- Claude Akins — Rev. Jeremiah Brown
- Elliott Reid — Prosecutor Tom Davenport
- Paul Hartman — Bailiff Mort Meeker
- Philip Coolidge — Mayor Jason Carter
- Jimmy Boyd — Howard
- Noah Beery Jr. — John Stebbins
- Norman Fell — WGN Radio Technician
- Gordon Polk — George Sillers
- Hope Summers — Mrs. Krebs - Righteous Townswoman
- Directed
- Stanley Kramer
- Written
- Harold Jacob Smith, Nedrick Young
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 476 ratings
- Studio
- Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
