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Saturday Cinema 1: Inherit the Wind

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

starring Spencer Tracy
Fredric March
Stanley Kramer 's film of the notorious 'Monkey' trial in Tennessee in 1925, when a schoolteacher was prosecuted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Spencer Tracy plays the liberal defence attorney (modelled on Clarence Darrow ) and Fredric March is the prosecuting lawyer. 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
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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 Hornbeck:
Gene Kelly
Mrs Brady:
Florence Eldridge
Bertram Cates:
Dick York
Rachel:
Donna Anderson
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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