![]() It might be tomorrow." Notably adapted to film in 1960 by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracey and Fredric March, and employing a screenwriter (Nedrick Young) who had himself been blacklisted. It is not 1925.It might have been yesterday. ![]() ![]() Though criticized in some quarters for dramatizing a little too much – Lawrence and Lee make free use of composite characters, invented confrontations, and heightened passions, in a play that has shaped public perceptions of this episode in American history for decades – the playwrights acquitted themselves of any charge of misleading audiences, maintaining (truthfully) in their prefatory note that INHERIT THE WIND is not transcribed newsreel footage but a work of art: "INHERIT THE WIND does not pretend to be journalism. INHERIT THE WIND dramatizing the Scopes "Monkey" trial as fictionalized stand-ins for Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan battle for the sympathies of a jury and for the nation at large. "From what you've heard about this Darwin, do you think your wife would want to have him over for Sunday dinner?" ![]()
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