Last Sunday, Y'all asked for a negative review to put my other ones in perspective. Well, lets just say that I could have called this "Movie Warning Monday"
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Written by: Jerome Laurence, Robert E. Lee.
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Starring Cast: Spencer Tracy (Henry Drummond), Dick York (Bertram T. Cates), Fredrick March (Matthew Harrison Brady)
Supporting Cast: Gene Kelly (E. K. Hornbeck), Donna Anderson (Rachel Brown), Harry Morgan (Judge Mel Coffey), Claude Atkins (Rev. Jeremiah Brown)
What's it Rated?: PG for thematic elements and some language
Genre: Courtroom Drama
Synopsis: A small-town school teacher is arrested and put on trial for teaching evolution in his school. Two big-time attorneys come to help their respective sides of the argument. One for Darwin, one for the Bible.
My Take: Inherit the Wind is actually a dramatization of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 when a biology teacher was arrested and challenged a law passed by the Tennessee State legislature making it a crime to teach anything other than the account of creation as set down in the Book of Genesis. Dick York is the biology teacher here, renamed Bertram Cates for the play and the film version of that play.
We when we watched Inherit the Wind we knew that it was from an evolutionary perspective, but I never thought it would be this bad. Not only does it assume that evolution is true, but it blatantly mocks God, the bible, and any who believe in either. Further, it labels Christians as legalistic, superstitious bigots who don't think about anything and just believe what ideas are fed them by their "religious leaders".
If you know what's good for you, put a good ten miles between you and this awful film.
Story: 6 out of 10
Humor: 6 out of 10
Drama/Suspense: 7 out of 10
Overall: 2 out of 10
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