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Inherit the Wind

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

opens a season of Hollywood classics.
Tonight starring
Spencer Tracy , Fredric March
Stanley Kramer 's film of the notorious Monkey' trial in Tennessee in 1925, when a school-teacher was prosecuted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Spencer Tracy plays the liberal defence attorney (modelled on the legendary Clarence Darrow ) and Fredric March is the prosecuting attorney.
Screenplay by NATHAN E. DOUGLAS , HAROLD JACOB SMITH Based on the play by JEROME LAWRENCE and ROBERT E. LEE
Produced and directed by STANLEY KRAMER Films: page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Stanley Kramer
Unknown:
Spencer Tracy
Unknown:
Clarence Darrow
Unknown:
Fredric March
Unknown:
Nathan E. Douglas
Unknown:
Harold Jacob Smith
Play By:
Jerome Lawrence
Play By:
Robert E. Lee
Directed By:
Stanley Kramer
Henry Drummond:
Spencer Tracy
Matthew Harrison Brady:
Fredric March
E K Hornbeek:
Gene Kelly
Mrs Brady:
Florence Eldridge
Bertram Gates:
Dick York
Rachel:
Donna Anderson
The Rev Brown:
Claude Akins
Davenport:
Elliott Reid
Judge:
Harry Morgan
Meeker:
Paul Hartman
Mayor:
Philip Coolidge
Stebbins:
Noah Beery Jr
Source: Radio Times

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