---
title: 'Inherit the Wind (1960)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Stanley Kramer'
released: '1960-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 123
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/inherit-the-wind-1960'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Inherit the Wind (1960)

1960 · 123 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Inherit the Wind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. It stars Spencer Tracy as lawyer Henry Drummond and Fredric March as his friend and rival Matthew Harrison Brady. It also features Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Donna Anderson, Claude Akins, Noah Beery Jr., Florence Eldridge, Jimmy Boyd and Gordon Polk.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Stanley Kramer](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kramer)
- **Producer:** [Stanley Kramer](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-kramer)
- **Screenplay:** [Harold Jacob Smith](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-jacob-smith), [Nedrick Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/nedrick-young)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ernest Gold](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-gold)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Laszlo](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-laszlo)
- **Editor:** [Frederic Knudtson](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederic-knudtson)

## Cast

- [Spencer Tracy](https://cinepixo.com/people/spencer-tracy) as Clarence Darrow
- [Elliott Reid](https://cinepixo.com/people/elliott-reid) as Prosecutor Tom Davenport
- [Fredric March](https://cinepixo.com/people/fredric-march) as William Jennings Bryan
- [Ray Teal](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-teal) as Jessie H. Dunlap
- [Paul Hartman](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-hartman) as Deputy Horace Meeker
- [Renee Godfrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/renee-godfrey) as Mrs. Stebbins
- [Noah Beery Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/noah-beery-jr) as John Stebbins
- [Hope Summers](https://cinepixo.com/people/hope-summers) as Mrs. Krebs
- [Harry Tenbrook](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-tenbrook)
- [Snub Pollard](https://cinepixo.com/people/snub-pollard)
- [Donna Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/donna-anderson) as Rachel Brown
- [Will Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-wright)
- [Harry Morgan](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-morgan) as John T. Raulston
- [Philip Coolidge](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-coolidge) as Mayor Jason Carter
- [Lester Dorr](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-dorr)

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