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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: INHERIT THE WIND review
Description: In which the Mister and the Monsters join me in reviewing INHERIT THE WIND (1960), currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Loosely based on the real life trial in 1925 of the State of Tennessee versus John Thomas Scopes, the film is a re-imagined retelling from the stage play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. The movie tells the story of the arrest of Bertram Cates (Dick York) the teacher who decided to champion evolution over creationism in the classroom and purposely going against state legislature. The cast includes greats like Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond, Frederic March as Matthew Harrison Br...