Produced and Directed by Stanley Kramer
Written by Nedrick Young (as Nathan E. Douglas) and Harold Jacob Smith, based on the 1955 play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
Cinematography by Ernest Laszlo
Music by Ernest Gold
Production Design by Rudolph Sternad
Costume Design by Joe King
Film Editing by Frederic Knudtson

CAST:

• Spencer Tracy - Henry Drummond [Clarence Darrow]
• Fredric March - Matthew Harrison Brady [William Jennings Bryan]
• Gene Kelly - E. K. Hornbeck [H. L. Mencken]
• Dick York - Bertram T. Cates [John T. Scopes]
• Harry Morgan - Judge [Judge Raulston]
• Florence Eldridge - Sarah Brady
• Elliott Reid - Davenport
• Philip Coolidge - Mayor
• Claude Akins - Reverend Jeremiah Brown
• Donna Anderson - Rachel Brown
• Paul Hartman - Meeker
• Jimmy Boyd - Howard
• Noah Beery Jr. - Stebbins
• Ray Teal - Dunlap
• Norman Fell - Radio Announcer
• Hope Summers - Mrs. Krebs

NOTES:

The Dayton, Tenn., of 1925 becomes the Hillsboro of 1960 in Stanley Kramer's film about the Scopes Trial.

LINKS:

• Inherit the Wind web page from Lyndsey McCabe, American Studies Program, University of Virginia, April 1996
• ACLU history
• Scopes Trial from Famous Trials page of Douglas Linder
• Willliam Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial from R. M. Cornelius
• William Jennings Bryan from Grolier
• Clarence Darrow web page
• remade as Inherit the Wind (1988) for TV