Inherit the Wind (1988)
1h 36m | PG-13
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Director: David Greene
Studio: David Greene Productions
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Video: 720p
Cast
Kirk Douglas
as Matthew Harrison Brady
Jason Robards
as Harry Drummond
Darren McGavin
as E.K. Hornbeck
John Harkins
as Judge
Megan Follows
as Rachel Brown
Kyle Secor
as Bertram Cates
Reviews
"Inherit the Wind" is a well acted and well staged period piece of the strength and story consciousness it is hard to find today. It has a truly amazing standard of writing which is of such a consistent high calibre it is difficult to imagine just how it could be possible to make a weak film out of it. Kirk Douglas and Jason Robards have an incredible amount of thought provoking material to work with and Robards is at his unassuming best throughout from his reminiscing about a rocking horse from his childhood called "Golden Dancer" to his increasingly explosive and impeccably paced questioning of Douglas based upon some random excerpts selected from the Holy Bible which eventually reveals Brady's unshatterable faith to still be intact, but his reasoning in such matters to be flawed and often floundering.