Overview: Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

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Genres: Drama

Production Companies: Stanley Kramer Productions , United Artists

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, View more Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Elliott Reid, Paul Hartman, Philip Coolidge, Jimmy Boyd, Noah Beery Jr., Norman Fell, Hope Summers, Ray Teal, Renee Godfrey, Florence Eldridge, Leon Alton, Frank Baker, Buck Bucko, Sam Harris, Shep Houghton, Hans Moebus, Harry 'Snub' Pollard, Robert Robinson, Eddie Baker, Adolph Faylauer, Bob Perry, Waclaw Rekwart, Stephen Soldi, Rudy Sooter, Gail Bonney, Jack Daly, Lester Dorr, Donald Elson, Colin Kenny, Frank Mills, Joe Ploski, Scott Seaton, Bert Stevens, Harry Tenbrook, David Fresco, Stuart Hall, Joseph Hamilton, Earle Hodgins, Wendell Holmes, Thomas Martin, Harp McGuire, Robert Osterloh, Leoda Richards, Hal Taggart, Charles Wagenheim, Justice Watson, Will Wright, Duke Fishman, Dick Cherney, Hank Mann, Brandon Beach

Crew: Lynn Stalmaster , Stanley Kramer , Stanley Kramer , Rudolph Sternad , Ernest Laszlo View more , Charles F. Wheeler , Ernest Gold , Frederic Knudtson , James Lister , Larry Germain , Bud Westmore , Morris Rosen , Nedrick Young , Harold Jacob Smith , Jerome Lawrence , Robert E. Lee , Herman Shumlin , Clem Beauchamp , Anne P. Kramer , Joe King , Sam Freedle , Ivan Volkman , Joe Lapis , Walter Elliott Art Cole