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Teacher B.T. Cates is taken to court for teaching Darwin's theories. That results in a debate between famous lawyer Henry Drummond and fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady; the first defends the teacher while the latter prosecutes.
A most worthwhile film, if for no other reason, because it provides a great opportunity to watch Tracy and March go at it in a most entertaining fashion.
February 11, 2002
Atlantic City Weekly
An all time classic
April 20, 2007
Time Out
Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists.
Director Kramer at his most unbearably high-minded and ostentatious
March 10, 2004
EmanuelLevy.Com
Director Stanley Kramer can't overcome the trepidations of a verbose courtroom drama, so he lets his two actors, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March dominate and go at each other, pretending it's a deep play of ideas.
Spencer Tracy does his cuddly curmudgeon turn as Clarence Darrow; it's a lazy, vague performance, but its wit provides the only crack of light in the film's somber, gray overcast.