Absolutely. Republican politicians in Texas are considering a bill that would give legal protection to teachers who present Creationism as a scientific theory. It is one of eight US states where similar laws have been proposed since the start of the year. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma and South Dakota are the others. Texas also signed a law to stop teachers from talking about racism, which is nothing more than an overt attempt to whitewash our history of slavery. Another example? A book like "The Life of Rosa Parks" is evidently too woke by the Republican Party. It's among 176 titles banned in Florida's Duval County. And this is just the start. In many red states there's a real resurgence of Christian nationalism in this country that want to foist their religionist views on students. All this almost 100 years after the Scopes Trial. To those who think we were past such intolerance and stupidity, think again.
Thematically timeless. Spencer Tracy's highest compliment, as an actor, came from James Cagney. " I'm easy to immitate but you never saw anybody imitate Tracy. Reserve and self control are not easy to mimic"
In my opinion, Spencer Tracy had no peers as an actor. Acting came so naturally to this giant of the silver screen, and he remains, for me at least, the standard by which every actor should be measured.
I saw an interview with the late, great James Garner done a few years before his death, where he was asked who was his greatest influence as an actor. Garner smiled and said "That would be Mr. Tracey."
God, this is still one of the greatest movies, and none of the remakes ever came close. What a speech! As relevant today as it was to the Scopes trial.
Whatever one thinks about the issues of the Scopes trial it's always a pleasure to see two great talents like Spencer Tracy and Frederic March at work,
One of my all-time favourite films. Incredible to think that so many years after the 'Monkey Trial' that the issues discussed still resonate so strongly, and with such relevance to our times. Many thanks for posting this.
Absolutely one of the finest soliloquies ever put into drama. Kind of wraps around H.L. Menkin's (and he was one of the journalists covering this actual trial) famous quote. "When fascism comes to America it will be carrying a bible and draped in the flag."
@@k8aik8ai I didn't see these people you speak of trying to raid the Capitol Building a year ago. I did see a lot of God-fearing, freedom-loving, Confederate-waving people though...
I absolutely loved this performance; it makes me feel so happy that one of my teachers has similar conviction toward certain subjects like the character of Drummond, here.
I love this so much! It gives me chills... beautifully delivered, and I'm in complete agreement with what he is saying. It makes me want to watch the movie! Thank you for sharing!
Simply a wonderful movie! I watched it for the first time when I was a lot younger. I didn't even remember that it was in back&white, but it made a deep impression and I'm glad I was able to find and watch it again. I am an atheist, but I'm grateful sometimes for the existence of religion. Without the fear of a higher power and punishment, most people would create chaos, yet I can't help but remember all those that have been unjustly "punished" in the name of a loving and forgiving God.
One of the finest pieces of cinema ever to see the screen. I've never encountered a movie so dense, so full of ideas, so laden with brilliant dialogue. Such strong characters, so much tension in the air you can almost touch it. Spencer Tracy is legendary.
an amazing performance by Mr.Tracy! Anyone else know that the real trial was a publicity stunt by the city,meant to draw tourists?The city paid the fine for the teacher,and he agreed to let them try him. An amazing business proposition,masterfully done.
Spencer Tracy was in bad health for the last eight to nine years of his life; he was compelled to withdraw from projects including The Cincinatti Kid with McQueen. Notwithstanding this fact, he made several memorable films directed by Stanley Kramer, including this adaptation of Inherit The Wind. He was nominated for Best Actor Oscars for three of the four Kramer productions.
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding." :) Nobody writes like this today. Why not? The world needs insight like this, now more than ever.
This was one of the finest movie/plays of the 1960's. I did a cutting from this while in college and the dialogue holds up as well today as it did then. Tracy and March were still at the top of their game when they made this and March remained so through "Hombre", seven years later. Hard to beat "old" Hollywood for nostalgia!
This film is not a "RELIGION BAD" movie. It's about fanaticism. It's about how being overly consumed with one philosophy can be destructive. Drummond in the film represents the middle ground, and both Brady and Hornbeck are staunch members of opposing beliefs (or lack there of).
Actually I've heard from a couple of people that Hornbeck is the real villain because he has no real beliefs in anything. Drummond himself says that all Hornbeck does is smirk at everything that people feel, or want, or struggle for. I for one think it makes him a tragic figure by the end, personally, but the point is that Hornbeck believes in nothing but himself, and that means nobody will be there to remember him when he goes. He knows this, and he's inwardly tortured by it, but like Oscar Wilde, he puts on a laughing mask and taunts the world so that he need not look where the real joke lies.
and you aren't exactly helping your cause either. And I wasn't agreeing with Mr. Steller himself, but you aren't making a great case for yourself and your cause as well. Going over the top on both sides is harmful and serves no benefits for either side.
Wow, it only took you the third comment to start insulting. It's condescending, smug comments like this that make me never take someone's side seriously, non-believer/believer it doesn't matter. The topic of faith/spirituality is a worth wild topic, but not when you're giving comments like that.
I really cannot think of any other actor other than Spencer Tracy who could have been able to deliver the complete passionate performance his role demanded. No disrespect to March, he is also indispensable. Tracy just simply IS Drummond.
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs constant feeding." Play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Screenplay by Nedrick Young originally as Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith
I think people need to note that even though the play, and this film, were based off the real events of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the play itself was actually meant as a subtle condemnation of McCarthyism. Listen to this speech and consider it in the context of Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts, rather than as an argument against religious zealotry.
In one of the most dramatic moments of the academy award winning film version of Inherit the Wind two of the great actors of the previous century confront one another. I was told to look up this clip for my critical reading class and now I'm going to put the movie on hold at my public library. It shows critical thinking skills which are very important in today's world. Something that millenials are lacking.
+Zack Gomez Millennial here, and this is my favorite film. I've watched it so much I've had to convert my tape of it because it was starting to get worn down. I can quote it damn near word for word. I agree many from my generation rely on Facebook to get their opinions and bandwagon far too often based on whose twitter they follow, but I personally think every issue must be looked at from all sides, and all concepts must be thought about in as unbiased a way as possible, considering what benefits an opposing viewpoint can bring to your own understanding. (Excuse my run-on sentence)
The original play was written in the McCarthy era. It was a time when people worried about people with the wrong ideas getting publicly humiliated, even if it wasn't encoded in law yet. This speech sums it up pretty well. If they wanted to represent an actual event in the past, they would have kept the same names, which they didn't. Instead, they wanted to use subtle means to talk about the present, or by the time this movie was made, the recent past.
Newton could've been a Nazi Werewolf and it wouldn't have made a difference because his research was based not in his beliefs but rather the actual world around him. His belief in God didn't effect the outcome of his ideas. Alright, genius. Tell me. What are the glaring holes in evolution. I could use a good laugh.
Well considering evolution when explained says that drastic change happens over centuries of breeding, I don't doubt it as a process of genetic engineering, I do doubt it can drastically change a sea living microscopic bacteria, into a human. Considering the same carbon dating has proven a identical human foot print preserved in stone is over 2 million years old, but still has the same characteristics of a modern human foot. I do not think humans evolved from germs or fish or even monkeys, we maybe related to monkeys, but I believe the basis of prehistoric humans was far closer to modern man, than apes.
@@mrfivegold so what? The evolution of man took over 6 million years and one of the first changes was converting the opposable thumbs into toes and kept the same design ever since, why would we share 99/98% of dna with the closest looking/behaving (same ears, same hands, same sets of teeth, incredible intelligence, only animal that is humorous next to humans, same feet structure except they have opposable thumbs and longer toes for climbing because we were evolved for walking on the ground, self medicate) the chimpanzee and bonobos, it doesn’t make sense, the sugar glider doesn’t share that similar genetics with flying squirrels despite being so similar in lifestyle and looks than humans and chimps, so it isn’t some sort of code that makes organism share similar genetics if they looked or/and lived the same way as each other. “Aquatic bacteria” didn’t drastically change into humans, or if your definition of drastically is 594 million years then you are correct How is the evidence of 2 million years old foot prints of humans is proof that evolution is wrong?
@@mrfivegold why are you insisting that bacteria became humans? They became many things at first leading to our existence, scientists have also witnessed with their own eyes that single-celled algae evolves into a multicellular organism, that could’ve happened to us too single-celled organism turning into vertebrates and invertebrates leading to our evolution
What a brilliant movie. I'm glad to see how th Tide has changed. I've seem people so enlightened that I no longer fear our future. We're seeing a huge wave of spiritually intelligent people who strive to heal our world with knowledge and compassion for all of Life, not just stupid humans who can do trick or cast magic spells.
My 10th grade biology class had to watch this movie, and many of the students were either sleeping or texting while the movie was going on. Damned, idiots missed out on watching a great movie. It's horrible how my fellow younger generation thinks that black and white=boring.
It only has that effect if it is what you are looking for. This film, as I'm sure you are aware, was based on a play which was in turn based on a real trial in the 1920s. The play was written as a criticism of McCarthyism in the US. One of the playwrights himself said (and I'm paraphrasing) that the play wasn't about science vs religion, it was about a man's right to think for himself.
will someone PLEASE post the pre trial scene between tracy, kelley and york. its like walking down an empty street listening to your own footsteps, but all you have to do is knock on any door and say if you let me in, i'll live the way you want me to live and i'll think the way you want me to think, and all the blinds will go up and all the doors will open and you'll never be lonely... ever again.
Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's movie stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Fay Wray from King Kong, Bing Crosby, Kay Francis and many more.
From what I understand the other actors on a movie Spencer was in couldn't tell when he was "On" or "Off". His performance went seemlessly from a coffee break to Roll cameras.
"We are special because we are the only ones with the abilities we have. We are rational, creative, logical" Which is what seperates us from the other animals we evolved from and why people will not revert to their animal instincts simply by being taught this fact. The point you seem to be missing is that evolution is taught because it is demonstrably true, whereas there is nothing demonstrable that can be shown to support creationism.
There are people working on it as we speak. Intelligent design, irreducible complexity. These are the catch cries of the people who want to deny science and start us again marching backward. These things are happening all across the Middle East. The cradle of civilisation. What makes you think it can't happen in the West?
Borel's Law, as creationist like to refer to it as, was a "rule of thumb" statement made by the mathematician in order to help laymen come to grips with very small possibilities. The value given was neither a theorem nor a lemma nor even a formal definition.
Bert Lancaster won the best actor in that year (1960)for his performance as a grinning womenising evangelist in the film "Elmer Gantry" along with Shirley Jones (best supporting actress for the same film). When you think about the part Spencer Tracy played in this film, it does not surprise me that he did`nt get the oscar because of the infiltration and influence of religion in american society. In my opinion both Tracy should have got oscars for this film.
In fact, here is the tail end of a quote by Mr. Borel, indicating that he personally disagrees with your interpretation of his whimsical musings... "We ought, it seems to me, to consider it likely that the formation of elementary living organisms, and the evolution of those organisms, are also governed by elementary properties of matter that we do not understand perfectly but whose existence we ought nevertheless admit."
A lot of these comments are attacking religion, but that's not what the movie is about. It's about not forcing your fanaticism on others. Let them have their opinion. Let us come together in discussion without persecuting one another, especially when there is no evidence against a higher power. Let's get along and find your own intellectual and spiritual path. I say this as an atheist too.
It was Dr. Emile Borel who first formulated the Law of Probability (chances higher than 10to the 50th power), we can state with certainty will never happen, regardless of the time allotted.(Emile Borel, Probabilities and Life, Dover 1962, chapters 1-3). The mathematical probability of a single living cell arising spontaneously has been calculated by evolutionary scientists and they have been unable to come up with a figure which falls under Borel's upper limit!
Another proof that comforts me in my belief that Spence is the greatest of actors. Manos, you should post excerpts with Gene Kelly. His impersonnification of a cynical and liberal journalist is awesome. Too bad his talent as an actor was not enough recognized and shown.
Loved it since I was a child. So important especially these days where anyone swimming against the tide is seen as a threat. Shame the visual quality is so bad. Unenlightened minds will be put off.
Spencer Tracy is truely an American treasure! It is important to note at the end of the film he holds both the Holy Bible and The Origin of Species in his hands. He puts neither down. Um... now what might be the Meaning behind this?
Funny, I first watched this movie at school, a Catholic School. They taught us religion and what not, but it wasn't that, the fact that they taught us science, evolution, biology, all forms of science with no care for fanaticism towards illogical belief. I know it sounds crazy to hear evolution and religion taught at the same time, but they never pushed anything on us. People were free to believe what they want. It put a lot of my faith back into people and that the world is in human minds.
@MyYummycookie In real life : Scopes lost the case but was only fined 100 dollars, they later said he wasn't guilty. William Jennings Bryan "Brady" died 3 days later.
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"Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding" what a great line!
What Spencer Tracy foresaw and warned about has already happened right now, very prescient.
The book would get banned today. Buy it for your local schools.
Absolutely. Republican politicians in Texas are considering a bill that would give legal protection to teachers who present Creationism as a scientific theory. It is one of eight US states where similar laws have been proposed since the start of the year. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma and South Dakota are the others. Texas also signed a law to stop teachers from talking about racism, which is nothing more than an overt attempt to whitewash our history of slavery.
Another example? A book like "The Life of Rosa Parks" is evidently too woke by the Republican Party. It's among 176 titles banned in Florida's Duval County. And this is just the start. In many red states there's a real resurgence of Christian nationalism in this country that want to foist their religionist views on students.
All this almost 100 years after the Scopes Trial. To those who think we were past such intolerance and stupidity, think again.
Yes, the book burners of yesteryear have had grandchildren and they are our neighbors.
Spenser Tracy didn't warn us about anything. He was a great actor, acting a part of a character.
Thematically timeless. Spencer Tracy's highest compliment, as an actor, came from James Cagney. " I'm easy to immitate but you never saw anybody imitate Tracy. Reserve and self control are not easy to mimic"
Philip Halpenny Excellent post! Thank you.
Cagney's observation was true, and fascinating, agree great post.
In my opinion, Spencer Tracy had no peers as an actor. Acting came so naturally to this giant of the silver screen, and he remains, for me at least, the standard by which every actor should be measured.
I saw an interview with the late, great James Garner done a few years before his death, where he was asked who was his greatest influence as an actor. Garner smiled and said "That would be Mr. Tracey."
"THIS COMMUNITY IS AN INSULT TO THE WORLD!" Epic! Spencer Tracy at his best right here!!!
God, this is still one of the greatest movies, and none of the remakes ever came close. What a speech! As relevant today as it was to the Scopes trial.
Absolutely one of the best movies ever.
RIP and long live Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967), aged 67
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Whatever one thinks about the issues of the Scopes trial it's always a pleasure to see two great talents like Spencer Tracy and Frederic March at work,
Thank you for posting this. I have never seen this movie.. all students in the bible belt should be shown this.
Thanks so much for posting my favorite movie in the drama category. Everyone should see this film at least once.
spencer tracy left me speechlees
One of my all-time favourite films. Incredible to think that so many years after the 'Monkey Trial' that the issues discussed still resonate so strongly, and with such relevance to our times. Many thanks for posting this.
I was intrigued in high school. Just makes me cry today...
Damn. Just damn. That was chilling.
Yeah! Get 'em, Spencer!
The greatest movie ever
Certainly one of the best
Absolutely one of the finest soliloquies ever put into drama. Kind of wraps around H.L. Menkin's (and he was one of the journalists covering this actual trial) famous quote. "When fascism comes to America it will be carrying a bible and draped in the flag."
Mencken was wrong, fascism ironically came wearing skinny jeans, man buns and carrying soy lattes.
@@k8aik8ai I didn't see these people you speak of trying to raid the Capitol Building a year ago.
I did see a lot of God-fearing, freedom-loving, Confederate-waving people though...
Perhaps so, but who knew it would be a flag the colors of a rainbow?
For my money, still the greatest American screen actor of the 20th century.
I absolutely loved this performance; it makes me feel so happy that one of my teachers has similar conviction toward certain subjects like the character of Drummond, here.
speechless me
I love this so much! It gives me chills... beautifully delivered, and I'm in complete agreement with what he is saying. It makes me want to watch the movie! Thank you for sharing!
So true and powerful.
Simply a wonderful movie! I watched it for the first time when I was a lot younger. I didn't even remember that it was in back&white, but it made a deep impression and I'm glad I was able to find and watch it again. I am an atheist, but I'm grateful sometimes for the existence of religion. Without the fear of a higher power and punishment, most people would create chaos, yet I can't help but remember all those that have been unjustly "punished" in the name of a loving and forgiving God.
THAT'S WHY Tracy is by far the best artist in the movie industry.
Frederic March and Spencer Tracy giving two of the finest performances in film history!
And Gene Kelly is amazing in a rare dramatic turn!
Powerful!!
One of the finest pieces of cinema ever to see the screen. I've never encountered a movie so dense, so full of ideas, so laden with brilliant dialogue. Such strong characters, so much tension in the air you can almost touch it. Spencer Tracy is legendary.
an amazing performance by Mr.Tracy!
Anyone else know that the real trial was a publicity stunt by the city,meant to draw tourists?The city paid the fine for the teacher,and he agreed to let them try him. An amazing business proposition,masterfully done.
Spencer Tracy was in bad health for the last eight to nine years of his life; he was compelled to withdraw from projects including The Cincinatti Kid with McQueen. Notwithstanding this fact, he made several memorable films directed by Stanley Kramer, including this adaptation of Inherit The Wind. He was nominated for Best Actor Oscars for three of the four Kramer productions.
"...fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding....." That's the message, and Spence delivered it well.
Wow...what an actor
You just can't say it any better than that. Amazing writing from that era.
brilliant speech
I asked you for the glaring holes and you can't even point to one. Brilliant.
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding." :)
Nobody writes like this today. Why not? The world needs insight like this, now more than ever.
This was one of the finest movie/plays of the 1960's. I did a cutting from this while in college and the dialogue holds up as well today as it did then. Tracy and March were still at the top of their game when they made this and March remained so through "Hombre", seven years later. Hard to beat "old" Hollywood for nostalgia!
Amazing how more than six decades later, this speech is actually MORE relevant to large portions of a certain country...believe me. Bigly.
Strange, isn't it? More relevant today than ever. In every country.
amazing delivery by Spencer Tracy
no wonder this guy has 9 best actor nominations
The time before air conditioning truly was barbaric.
🤯 FUK! This actor was amazing...we don’t have anyone that can perform like him. I don’t even think anyone can imitate.
It will. And you will remember this exchange for eternity.
Another of his great speeches. They would burn him at the stake today.
Greate movie.So important.
This film is not a "RELIGION BAD" movie. It's about fanaticism. It's about how being overly consumed with one philosophy can be destructive. Drummond in the film represents the middle ground, and both Brady and Hornbeck are staunch members of opposing beliefs (or lack there of).
Actually I've heard from a couple of people that Hornbeck is the real villain because he has no real beliefs in anything. Drummond himself says that all Hornbeck does is smirk at everything that people feel, or want, or struggle for. I for one think it makes him a tragic figure by the end, personally, but the point is that Hornbeck believes in nothing but himself, and that means nobody will be there to remember him when he goes. He knows this, and he's inwardly tortured by it, but like Oscar Wilde, he puts on a laughing mask and taunts the world so that he need not look where the real joke lies.
and you aren't exactly helping your cause either. And I wasn't agreeing with Mr. Steller himself, but you aren't making a great case for yourself and your cause as well. Going over the top on both sides is harmful and serves no benefits for either side.
Wow, it only took you the third comment to start insulting. It's condescending, smug comments like this that make me never take someone's side seriously, non-believer/believer it doesn't matter. The topic of faith/spirituality is a worth wild topic, but not when you're giving comments like that.
I really cannot think of any other actor other than Spencer Tracy who could have been able to deliver the complete passionate performance his role demanded. No disrespect to March, he is also indispensable. Tracy just simply IS Drummond.
This is amazing, one of my favorite movies.
This script sets the gold standard. Brilliant!
Brilliant!! thanks for posting...man they don't make movies like they used to
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs constant feeding."
Play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Screenplay by Nedrick Young originally as Nathan E. Douglas and
Harold Jacob Smith
Great book
"When all this comes true - and it surely will - then they will know that a prophet has been among them." YHWH Ezekiel 33:33.
I think people need to note that even though the play, and this film, were based off the real events of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the play itself was actually meant as a subtle condemnation of McCarthyism. Listen to this speech and consider it in the context of Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts, rather than as an argument against religious zealotry.
In one of the most dramatic moments of the academy award winning film version of Inherit the Wind two of the great actors of the previous century confront one another. I was told to look up this clip for my critical reading class and now I'm going to put the movie on hold at my public library. It shows critical thinking skills which are very important in today's world. Something that millenials are lacking.
+Zack Gomez Millennial here, and this is my favorite film. I've watched it so much I've had to convert my tape of it because it was starting to get worn down. I can quote it damn near word for word.
I agree many from my generation rely on Facebook to get their opinions and bandwagon far too often based on whose twitter they follow, but I personally think every issue must be looked at from all sides, and all concepts must be thought about in as unbiased a way as possible, considering what benefits an opposing viewpoint can bring to your own understanding.
(Excuse my run-on sentence)
The original play was written in the McCarthy era. It was a time when people worried about people with the wrong ideas getting publicly humiliated, even if it wasn't encoded in law yet. This speech sums it up pretty well. If they wanted to represent an actual event in the past, they would have kept the same names, which they didn't. Instead, they wanted to use subtle means to talk about the present, or by the time this movie was made, the recent past.
Newton could've been a Nazi Werewolf and it wouldn't have made a difference because his research was based not in his beliefs but rather the actual world around him. His belief in God didn't effect the outcome of his ideas.
Alright, genius. Tell me. What are the glaring holes in evolution. I could use a good laugh.
Chris Ray Gun oh look, chris is here.
Well considering evolution when explained says that drastic change happens over centuries of breeding, I don't doubt it as a process of genetic engineering, I do doubt it can drastically change a sea living microscopic bacteria, into a human. Considering the same carbon dating has proven a identical human foot print preserved in stone is over 2 million years old, but still has the same characteristics of a modern human foot. I do not think humans evolved from germs or fish or even monkeys, we maybe related to monkeys, but I believe the basis of prehistoric humans was far closer to modern man, than apes.
@@mrfivegold so what? The evolution of man took over 6 million years and one of the first changes was converting the opposable thumbs into toes and kept the same design ever since, why would we share 99/98% of dna with the closest looking/behaving (same ears, same hands, same sets of teeth, incredible intelligence, only animal that is humorous next to humans, same feet structure except they have opposable thumbs and longer toes for climbing because we were evolved for walking on the ground, self medicate) the chimpanzee and bonobos, it doesn’t make sense, the sugar glider doesn’t share that similar genetics with flying squirrels despite being so similar in lifestyle and looks than humans and chimps, so it isn’t some sort of code that makes organism share similar genetics if they looked or/and lived the same way as each other.
“Aquatic bacteria” didn’t drastically change into humans, or if your definition of drastically is 594 million years then you are correct
How is the evidence of 2 million years old foot prints of humans is proof that evolution is wrong?
@@gigachad4300 but there is no proof bacteria became humans.
@@mrfivegold why are you insisting that bacteria became humans? They became many things at first leading to our existence, scientists have also witnessed with their own eyes that single-celled algae evolves into a multicellular organism, that could’ve happened to us too single-celled organism turning into vertebrates and invertebrates leading to our evolution
One of our favorites. Just like today.
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
What a brilliant movie. I'm glad to see how th Tide has changed. I've seem people so enlightened that I no longer fear our future. We're seeing a huge wave of spiritually intelligent people who strive to heal our world with knowledge and compassion for all of Life, not just stupid humans who can do trick or cast magic spells.
Harry Morgan, who played the Judge is still alive today. (He's better known as Col. Potter from MASH or Gannon from Dragnet)... This is a great scene.
My 10th grade biology class had to watch this movie, and many of the students were either sleeping or texting while the movie was going on. Damned, idiots missed out on watching a great movie. It's horrible how my fellow younger generation thinks that black and white=boring.
It only has that effect if it is what you are looking for. This film, as I'm sure you are aware, was based on a play which was in turn based on a real trial in the 1920s. The play was written as a criticism of McCarthyism in the US. One of the playwrights himself said (and I'm paraphrasing) that the play wasn't about science vs religion, it was about a man's right to think for himself.
will someone PLEASE post the pre trial scene between tracy, kelley and york.
its like walking down an empty street listening to your own footsteps, but all you have to do is knock on any door and say if you let me in, i'll live the way you want me to live and i'll think the way you want me to think, and all the blinds will go up and all the doors will open and you'll never be lonely... ever again.
Tracy was the greatest actor in film history!
Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's movie stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Fay Wray from King Kong, Bing Crosby, Kay Francis and many more.
You win the prize!
Best comment i have read today.
From what I understand the other actors on a movie Spencer was in couldn't tell when he was "On" or "Off". His performance went seemlessly from a coffee break to Roll cameras.
Spencer tracy was such a great actor.
"We are special because we are the only ones with the abilities we have. We are rational, creative, logical"
Which is what seperates us from the other animals we evolved from and why people will not revert to their animal instincts simply by being taught this fact.
The point you seem to be missing is that evolution is taught because it is demonstrably true, whereas there is nothing demonstrable that can be shown to support creationism.
So relevant in the United States today.
This scene should not be forgotten, especially with all the worrying news coming out of the southern US states.
There are people working on it as we speak. Intelligent design, irreducible complexity. These are the catch cries of the people who want to deny science and start us again marching backward. These things are happening all across the Middle East. The cradle of civilisation. What makes you think it can't happen in the West?
Borel's Law, as creationist like to refer to it as, was a "rule of thumb" statement made by the mathematician in order to help laymen come to grips with very small possibilities. The value given was neither a theorem nor a lemma nor even a formal definition.
Bert Lancaster won the best actor in that year (1960)for his performance as a grinning womenising evangelist in the film "Elmer Gantry" along with Shirley Jones (best supporting actress for the same film).
When you think about the part Spencer Tracy played in this film, it does not surprise me that he did`nt get the oscar because of the infiltration and influence of religion in american society.
In my opinion both Tracy should have got oscars for this film.
Same thing happened to me, all the idiots in my Religion class fell asleep or were texting! It was such a good movie!
What ELECTRICITY!!!
@cirosuperiore He did this whole scene in one take (more than is shown here).
Sign on one of the highways entering Kansas:
Welcome to Kansas. Turn your clocks back 1000 years.
I'm saying we aren't better. But we will.
In fact, here is the tail end of a quote by Mr. Borel, indicating that he personally disagrees with your interpretation of his whimsical musings...
"We ought, it seems to me, to consider it likely that the formation of elementary living organisms, and the evolution of those organisms, are also governed by elementary properties of matter that we do not understand perfectly but whose existence we ought nevertheless admit."
Its completely applicable for both because there really is little difference.
A lot of these comments are attacking religion, but that's not what the movie is about. It's about not forcing your fanaticism on others. Let them have their opinion. Let us come together in discussion without persecuting one another, especially when there is no evidence against a higher power. Let's get along and find your own intellectual and spiritual path. I say this as an atheist too.
It was Dr. Emile Borel who first formulated the Law of Probability (chances higher than 10to the 50th power), we can state with certainty will never happen, regardless of the time allotted.(Emile Borel, Probabilities and Life, Dover 1962, chapters 1-3).
The mathematical probability of a single living cell arising spontaneously has been calculated by evolutionary scientists and they have been unable to come up with a figure which falls under Borel's upper limit!
May you have good health, great wealth, and a long life. Pleasure chatting with you!
isn't it frightening how close we are to having this type of trial again have we learnt nothing
there's none so blind as those who will not see
What a great actor.
Amen, brother.
Grab your GEDs , middle America! Because its time to argue on youtube!
Another proof that comforts me in my belief that Spence is the greatest of actors. Manos, you should post excerpts with Gene Kelly. His impersonnification of a cynical and liberal journalist is awesome. Too bad his talent as an actor was not enough recognized and shown.
God in Heaven, where have all the Spencer Traceys gone?
Stuart Smith - there was only ONE Spencer Tracy - they broke the mold after him
Loved it since I was a child. So important especially these days where anyone swimming against the tide is seen as a threat.
Shame the visual quality is so bad. Unenlightened minds will be put off.
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding." Wikipedia - Scopes Trial - Clarence Darrow - Defence. quoted word for word in the movie
Such a great movie! The sad thing is, this is still being repeated today in our science & reason challenged country.
Yep, I always remember that one. Jack Lemmon played a great Drummond, too
Spencer Tracy is truely an American treasure! It is important to note at the end of the film he holds both the Holy Bible and The Origin of Species in his hands. He puts neither down. Um... now what might be the Meaning behind this?
Sick, cant believe Spencer would do a wicked part like this. Id hate to be him on the Day of Judgment.
thanks I will check it out
Excellent choice. "How old do you think this rock is?"
Funny, I first watched this movie at school, a Catholic School. They taught us religion and what not, but it wasn't that, the fact that they taught us science, evolution, biology, all forms of science with no care for fanaticism towards illogical belief. I know it sounds crazy to hear evolution and religion taught at the same time, but they never pushed anything on us. People were free to believe what they want. It put a lot of my faith back into people and that the world is in human minds.
great movie
@MyYummycookie In real life : Scopes lost the case but was only fined 100 dollars, they later said he wasn't guilty. William Jennings Bryan "Brady" died 3 days later.