Top-notch courtroom drama set in 1925 upon Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee 1955 play with nice script from Ned Young and Harold Smith . Dealing with a famous trial in Tennessee State : based on the 1925 scores Monkey Trial, in which a natural science teacher is arrreted and faced prosecution for lecturing on Darwinian theory in America Deep South . It happens a young schoolmaster, Dick York, was indicted for illegally teaching Charles Darwin's evolution theories. Then an agnostic, sympathetic Advocate at Law called Henry Drummond, Spencer Tracy, defends the hapless teacher against their rival antagonists , the conservative Fredric March, and a public prosecutor : Elliot Reid. While Dick York plays the ingenuous teacher and Gene Kelly bears inadequacy as the cynical reporter who lurks, danceless, in the sidelines and is comfortably denounced as the true villain of the piece. The familiar and notorious secondaries faces appearing are as follows : Gene Kelly who is rather let down by his miscast as a cunning journalist, Claude Akins as a stiff-upper-lip reverend who has a daughter : Donna Henderson, Dick York's girlfriend, the veteran Florence Eldridge, Noah Beery Jr, Ray Teal, Norman Fell, and Henry -Harry- Morgan as a judge. There is another rendition 1999, also based on the known incident, being directed by Daniel Petrie with George C Scott as rigid fundamentalist prosecutor who stubbornly prosecutes , Jack Lemmon as the atheist suplicator who defends , Tom Everett Scott as the accused of the crime of teaching evolution, Kathryn Morris, Piper Laurie, Lane Smith, John Cullum, Beau Bridges.
This is an excellent courtroom drama with hilarious elements , it is about the Monkey Trail that rocked America and in which Spencer Tracy gives a wonderful acting by repeating his usual style as the agnostic attorney who comes to town to defend an unfortunate teacher. Being a pretty good film, including debates direct and largely taken from the transcripts. Tolerably gripping in solid-fashioned, thanks chieftly to magnificent interpretation from a great main and support cast . The main stars steal the show by a thrilling confrontation that takes place between these giants of the cinema: Spencer Tracy and Fredric March. As veteran Fredric March is equally fabulous as the respected , ideologist Matthew Harrison who defends strictly the Biblic articles and attempts to keep religious teaching in the school.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. As well as adequate and exciting musical score by Ernest Gold. The motion picture was competently directed by Stanley Kramer. He was a prestigious writer, producer, director who made a lot of films. Here Kramer makes an attractive and enthralling show of coutroom fireworks. As Kramer directed films of all kinds of genres, such as : Not as a stranger, The pride and the passion, The defiant ones, On the beach, Judgement at Nuremberg, It's a mad, mad, mad world, Ship of fools, Guess who is coming to dinner, The secret of Santa Vittoria, Oklahoma crude, The domino principle, The runner stumbles. Rating 7/10. Better than average. Well worth watching.
This is an excellent courtroom drama with hilarious elements , it is about the Monkey Trail that rocked America and in which Spencer Tracy gives a wonderful acting by repeating his usual style as the agnostic attorney who comes to town to defend an unfortunate teacher. Being a pretty good film, including debates direct and largely taken from the transcripts. Tolerably gripping in solid-fashioned, thanks chieftly to magnificent interpretation from a great main and support cast . The main stars steal the show by a thrilling confrontation that takes place between these giants of the cinema: Spencer Tracy and Fredric March. As veteran Fredric March is equally fabulous as the respected , ideologist Matthew Harrison who defends strictly the Biblic articles and attempts to keep religious teaching in the school.
It contains an atmospheric and evocative cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. As well as adequate and exciting musical score by Ernest Gold. The motion picture was competently directed by Stanley Kramer. He was a prestigious writer, producer, director who made a lot of films. Here Kramer makes an attractive and enthralling show of coutroom fireworks. As Kramer directed films of all kinds of genres, such as : Not as a stranger, The pride and the passion, The defiant ones, On the beach, Judgement at Nuremberg, It's a mad, mad, mad world, Ship of fools, Guess who is coming to dinner, The secret of Santa Vittoria, Oklahoma crude, The domino principle, The runner stumbles. Rating 7/10. Better than average. Well worth watching.