Inherit the Wind
(1960)
Rusty: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White (Ernest Laszlo)
Academy Award for Best Film Editing (Frederic Knudtson)
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith)Award details: (details at IMDb)
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Inherit the Wind is a 1960 Hollywood film adaptation of the play of the same name, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, directed by Stanley Kramer. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady, also featuring Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery, Jr., Florence Eldridge, and Jimmy Boyd. The script was adapted by Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith. Stanley Kramer was commended for bringing in writer Nedrick Young, as the latter was blacklisted. Inherit the Wind is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss McCarthyism. Written in response to the chilling effect of the McCarthy era investigations on intellectual discourse, the play are critical of creationism. The film had its World Premiere at the Astoria Theatre in London's West End on July 7th 1960. A television remake of the film appeared in 1965. Another television remake starring Jason Robards and Kirk Douglas aired in 1988. It was once again remade for TV in 1999, co-starring Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Brady.