Inherit the Wind

The sensational trial of a young teacher, Bertram Cates (Dick York), who is prosecuted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a high school science class -- a violation of state law. Three-time presidential candidate Matthew Brady (Fredric March) is the prosecutor pitted against the controversial and brilliant Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) as Cates's defense lawyer in a rhetorical battle between fundamentalism and science, while influential newspaperman E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) of the Baltimore Sun gives the case national coverage.