Menton exposes the distortions and inaccuracies in the play and movie 'Inherit the Wind ... Christians went on a 'witch hunt' to stop John Scopes from teaching evolution. In reality it was ...
In 1960 the defendant returned to the scene of his "crime" when the movie version of the trial, Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind, premiered at a Dayton drive-in. Scopes saw himself on the big ...
But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle ... and racy Hollywood movies, which they thought were undermining the authority of the Bible and Christian morals in society.
The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...