Inherit the Wind

George C. Scott (in his Last performance) and Jack Lemmon give an impressive performance in this gripping courtroom drama based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trials, which made history in 1925 An idealist young science teacher Bertram Cates, is arrested for teaching his class the Darwin Theory of Evolution, causing great political and social debate to erupt in the small southern town of Hillsboro. Two of the nations biggest lawyers battle out the issues in the courtroom, Matt Brady, a religious zealot who preaches against Darwin, and Henry Drummond, a liberal atheist who believes in Cates practices and free speech. The intense political dispute, which makes national headlines, has an outcome that changes the course of scientific theory and free speaking forever., Remake of the dramatization of the 1925 Scopes ‘monkey trial’ in which a schoolmaster was tried for teaching the theory of evolution., The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the Showtime premium cable network. Jack Lemmon plays the celebrated trial lawyer who defends the teacher in a character based on Clarence Darrow and George C. Scott plays the prosecuting attorney, modeled on William Jennings Bryan; Tom Everett Scott plays the embattled educator., Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott are courtroom adversaries in this remake of the classic film based on the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” in which a teacher was prosecuted for discussing evolution in his classroom. Bertram Cates: Thomas Everett Scott. Rachel Brown: Kathryn Morris. Directed by Daniel Petrie Sr.