Showtimes
Saturday, October 24, 2026
3:30PM Oriental Theatre - Herzfeld Cinema (East)
Description
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.
Sponsored by Foley & Lardner LLP
- Series
- Cinema Subpoena: Lawyers on Film
- Year
- 1960
- Length
- 128 minutes
- Language
- English, Italian
- Rating
- UR
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Stanley Kramer
- Producer
- Stanley Kramer
- Writers
- Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
- Starring
- Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
- Cinematographer
- Ernest Laszlo
- Editor
- Frederic Knudtson
- Composer
- Ernest Gold
- Production Design
- Rudolph Sternad
The Pitch
Mr. Kramer has wonderfully accomplished not only a graphic fleshing of his theme but he also has got one of the most brilliant and engrossing displays of acting ever witnessed on the screen.
The New York Times, 1960
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