Inherit the wind movie review

“Inherit the Wind (1960) was based on real-life Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial, which took place in Dayton, Tennessee in July 1925.”

Stanley Kramer was an active producer and director in 1950s & 60s Hollywood, his reputation associated with prestige projects like Death of a Salesman [1951], High Noon [1952], The Caine Mutiny [1954], Judgment at Nuremberg [1961], etc; gutsy pictures that were more meaningful than the usual Hollywood spectacles.

Only by the mid-1950s, Stanley Kramer stepped behind the camera to direct (‘Not as a Stranger’ in 1955) and in his third directorial feature (The Defiant Ones, 1958) he tackled one of the taboo subjects in Hollywood: racism.

Although Kramer’s next titled, On the Beach (1959) was one of the early American movies present a post-apocalyptic scenario (based on Nevil Shute’s novel), it was too ostentatious and talky to convey the grimness of a possible nuclear holocaust.

But the powerful courtroom drama, Inherit the Wind (1960) was Mr.