Inherit the wind / Tracy, Spencer

When a young, courageous teacher dares to introduce his students to Darwin's Theory of Evolution, his small Bible-belt town won't stand for it!. Based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.

Presents the film version and Cliff's Notes for Lawrence and Lee's play "Inherit the Wind," in which a Tennessee high school educator is jailed for teaching evolution, bringing legal legends Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant to wrangle over the merits of the case in a drama based on the real Scopes Trial.

Lawyers face off in 1925 Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes Monkey Trial, which determined the legality of teaching evolution versus creation in the classroom.