Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
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Budget: $2,000,000
Revenue: $2,000,000
ROI: 0.0%
Verdict: Break Even
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> Stanley Kramer (Director) > Ivan Volkman (Assistant Director) > Ernest Laszlo (Director of Photography) > Herman Shumlin (Stage Director) > Leonard Kunody (Second Assistant Director)
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> Nedrick Young (Screenplay) > Harold Jacob Smith (Screenplay) > Jerome Lawrence (Theatre Play) > Robert Edwin Lee (Theatre Play)
