Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists.
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02/09/06
Inherit The Wind (1960)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This gripping adaptation of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee play examines an issue that still causes great controversy: the role religion should play in the schools. Bertram T. Cates is... [More]
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge
Director: Stanley Kramer
Reviews for Inherit The Wind
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03/17/09
Top CriticDirector Stanley Kramer can't overcome the trepidations of a verbose courtroom drama, so he lets his two actors, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March dominate and go at each other, pretending it's a deep play of ideas.
03/18/08
Stagey yes, but powerful Tracy and March acting + subject matter make this a must see.
02/24/08
Absorbing, if long-winded courtroom drama bolstered by two fine central performances from Tracy and March.
08/13/07
Top CriticSpencer Tracy does his cuddly curmudgeon turn as Clarence Darrow; it's a lazy, vague performance, but its wit provides the only crack of light in the film's somber, gray overcast.
08/13/07
An all time classic
04/20/07
Tracy and March turn in superlative performances, each trying to upstage the other.
04/01/07
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12/16/04
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11/19/04
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03/26/04
Director Kramer at his most unbearably high-minded and ostentatious
03/10/04
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06/26/03
Extraordinarly vivid, rich, and wise about the core questions of how we know and who we are.
04/04/03
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03/03/03
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10/31/02
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08/14/02
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07/29/02
A most worthwhile film, if for no other reason, because it provides a great opportunity to watch Tracy and March go at it in a most entertaining fashion.
02/11/02
Producer-director Stanley Kramer ably handles the incendiary material visually, making good use of deep focus and careful compositions
01/01/02
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