“Inherit the Wind” quotes
(1960)
Title Inherit the Wind
Year 1960
Director Stanley Kramer
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 1960
Director Stanley Kramer
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Plot – In a small backwater American town, the pastor, together with the city's most influential public officials, decides to press charges against a schoolteacher who is introducing Charles Darwin's evolution of species theories to his students. When a big newspaper decides to take up the defense of the teacher, hiring a prominent lawyer to defend him, prosecutors are obliged to respond heads on by convening an equally illustrious lawyer.
All actors – Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell, Gordon Polk, Hope Summers, Ray Teal, Renee Godfrey, Florence Eldridge, Leon Alton, Don Ames, Don Anderson, Eddie Baker, Frank Baker, Alex Ball, John Barton, Brandon Beach, Gail Bonney, Chet Brandenburg, Brad Brown, Ralph Bucko, George Calliga, Dick Cherney, Oliver Cross, Jack Daly, Richard Deacon, Jack Deery, Lester Dorr, George Dunn, Donald Elson, Adolph Faylauer, Duke Fishman, David Fresco, Joseph Glick, Signe Hack, Stuart Hall, Joseph Hamilton, Sam Harris, Earle Hodgins, Tex Holden, Wendell Holmes, Shep Houghton, Colin Kenny, Johnny Kern, Perk Lazelle, Hank Mann, Thomas Martin, Harp McGuire, Frank Mills, Hans Moebus, Robert Osterloh, Stephen Paylow, Bob Perry, Joe Ploski, Snub' Pollard, Paul Power, Waclaw Rekwart, Addison Richards, Leoda Richards, Robert Robinson, Scott Seaton, Leslie Sketchley, Stephen Soldi, Rudy Sooter, Bert Stevens, Martin Strader, Hal Taggart, Harry Tenbrook, George Tracy, Charles Wagenheim, Justice Watson, Will Wright
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“- Matthew Harrison Brady: Why is it, my old friend, that you've moved so far away from me?
- Henry Drummond: All motion is relative, Matt. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”“Youth can be so pure. What do you know of good or evil? What do you understand of the sum of a man's life?”
“Which is hungrier my stomach or my soul? Hotdog!”
“- Henry Drummond: Ever been in love Hornbeck?
- E. K. Hornbeck: Only with the sound of my own words, thank God.”“Mr. Brady, it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“The Bible is a book. It's a good book, but it is not the only book.”
“I don't swear just for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words that anybody understands.”
“- Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about.
- Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about?”Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone, but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price: you lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer... (continue)(continue reading)
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