Inherit The Wind (1960) - (Movie Clip) Read Your Darwin

Inherit the Wind -- (Original Trailer)

In the twenties, a schoolteacher creates a national furor by teaching evolution in his class in Inherit the Wind (1960), directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March.

Inherit The Wind (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Heaven Has Chosen Us

Early events, teacher Cates (Dick York) is apprehended, and civic leaders (Claude Akins the preacher, Philip Coolidge the mayor, Wendell Holmes the banker) fret, in Stanley Kramer's film based on the "Scopes Monkey Trial" and the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee play, Inherit The Wind, 1960.

Inherit The Wind (1960) -- (Movie Clip) That's Evolution For You

Drummond (Spencer Tracy), based on lawyer Clarence Darrow, with Gene Kelly his newsman sidekick, arrives at the rural hotel where he meets both Mrs. (Florence Eldridge) and his opponent Mr. Brady (Fredric March) who are, it turns out, old friends, before the evolution trial, in Inherit The Wind, 1960.

Inherit The Wind (1960) -- (Movie Clip) We Are Simple Folk

Named an honorary colonel in the state militia, Matthew Brady (based on three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan) works the crowd in advance of the evolution trial he's volunteered to prosecute, Gene Kelly (as the H.L. Mencken-based Hornbeck) interrupting, early in Inherit The Wind, 1960.

Spencer Tracy -- (Movie Promo) Inherit The Wind, 1960

A TCM original on our October, 2012 Star Of The Month, Spencer Tracy, and his performance in Inherit The Wind, 1960, airing Monday the 29th at 8pm ET.

Bob Newhart -- (Movie Promo) Guest Programmer

TCM's original promo for Guest Programmer Bob Newhart, joining Robert Osborne on Tuesday, January 19th starting at 8pm ET.