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Inherit the Wind (1999) [VHS]

Director: Daniel Petrie
Actors: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, David Wells, Beau Bridges, Tom Everett Scott
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: Video

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 8718

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 6305600988
UPC: 027616791634
EAN: 9786305600985
ASIN: 6305600988

Theatrical Release Date: May 29, 1999
Release Date: November 7, 2000
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
The word classic can readily be applied to the story of what became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, which led to the Broadway hit that has now been filmed for the third time. With Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott playing adversarial attorneys, this period piece deals in ideas and ideals in a masterful courtroom drama.

In 1925, a schoolteacher is arrested for teaching Darwinism in the community of Hillsboro, where such scientific refutations of the Bible are illegal. Scott plays prosecutor Matthew Brady (based on politician Williams Jennings Bryan), bringing majesty and tragedy to a character many would find repugnant, as he prophetically bemoans a society moving "from love of God to love of self." Jack Lemmon plays attorney Henry Drummond (based on the legendary Clarence Darrow) and brings his trademark portrayal of the "little guy" to a man determined to protect a citizen's basic right to freedom of thought, proclaiming, "An idea is a greater monument to God than a cathedral." The wonderful supporting cast, including Beau Bridges, Piper Laurie, and John Cullum, all demonstrate their love of a multilayered drama filled with conundrums of faith and contradictions of philosophy. Veteran director Daniel Petrie helms with little flash, but his production offers so many concepts and emotions that the high points of drama remain with the viewer after the film is over. --Lloyd Chesley

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You can't improve onn perfection June 21, 2010
S. Kracher
This version of INHERIT THE WIND was okay, but the original movie with Fredrick March and Spencer Tracy was much better.

And in this version, Jack Lemon gave a much better performance than George C. Scott.

AS I said, you can't improve on perfection.

1 out of 5 stars

Dishonest and Disrespectful May 18, 2009
friendoftheabc (Vancouver, BC)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I did a little research on this movie and turned up some unpleasant truths: About once a decade, an "anti-religion propaganda film" comes out of Hollywood. I can name three of them and this is one. Really, if such a movie targeted blacks or gays or Muslims, it would arouse an outcry, and it should. This movie, produced by an atheist Christian-hater, is simply a thinly disguised attack on Christians. A teacher who shows this to his class is perpetuating this prejudice. The film does everything it can to portray southern American Christians as hateful, bigoted, intolerant, narrow-minded, ignorant, anti-scientific, and utterly unsophisticated. But, isn't such a hateful portrayal itself bigoted, hateful, & intolerant? Is such an image REALLY accurate about ANYONE? Here in Canada we are taught not to tolerate religious bigotry any more than racial bigotry. Anyway, "hate & mockery" truly describe the spirit of this film - it is so extreme, it is almost unique in this way. As for its content:

The film is technically fine - a courtroom drama. But unfortunately, it is not faithful to the facts of the trial; in fact, the whole picture is essentially a lie. For instance, no one arrested Scopes, the whole trial was initiated by the ACLU in order to overturn a penaltyless anti-evolution law. The ACLU convinced Scopes to play this role and even the prosecution cooperated as a test case. Scopes was not poor and defenseless either, a whole team of lawyers and scientists was brought from NYC by the ACLU. Thus, it wasn't really a normal trial - this is why the defense freely admitted Scopes "guilt". Scopes himself hadn't even taught evolution, the "defense" attorneys had coached the children three months later to say he had (read perjury). What Scopes had done is teach from a book which did teach evolution (the same textbook also declared evolution proved whites were superior to other races, by the way). Anyway, Scopes himself said in his autobiography that he was treated very well by everyone in town. As for the angry fundamentalist preacher and the violent lynch-mob, these were complete fiction - a straw man falsely representing only what the filmmaker WANTED to envision - in short, a lie. And...

It was Darrow, not Bryant, who was cited for contempt for his rudeness. Darrow was an avowed atheist who admitted in his own autobiography that his real goal for the case was to attack what he called "fundamentalists". In fact, the last day of the trial this man broke his word by refusing to testify. By contrast, Bryant, Darrow's opponent, was no intolerant, ignorant buffoon, as he is portrayed in the film - Bryant was chosen as the democratic candidate for president three times and was Wilson's Secretary of State. And the scientists? Darrow wouldn't even let them testify because he knew what Bryant could do to them on the stand! The whole movie deliberately twists the facts much like a Nazi or Soviet styled propaganda film. This movie is simply a deliberate slander: it has nothing to do with science - it was designed to slander Bible believers. Think about what you are really doing before you embrace this film. Using this film in a science class does not teach science; rather, it trains children to despise Christians.

There are few films I'd actually condemn - this is one of about ten. And by the way, before you mock creationists, intelligent design proponents, religious people, or atheists, be intellectually honest by taking a couple of hours to hear the specifics of what your opponents are saying; have you ever even heard what they have to say? Have you? Use science to carry on this controversy - not ridicule. Ridiculing others, as the filmmaker has so eagerly done, is just plain wrong.

1 out of 5 stars

Great service but . . . March 26, 2009
Michael Worsham
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

the tape was in poor condition that had streaks through some of the tape. That information should have been stated in the description.

1 out of 5 stars

For the gullible. February 23, 2009
C. Savige (Australia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

One reviewer said that this film "proves" the Bible to be "baloney". It does nothing of the kind. All it proves is that Hollywood is steeped in anti-religious propaganda. The film is full of caricatures that make no sense. The so-called prayer meeting alone illustrates that the script writer has never attended an actual prayer meeting. The ridiculous charge that a Bible believer can't see reason or that evolutionism is equivalent to "science" or "reason" shows that there is not much intelligence in the whole structure of the film. The film itself is, of course, a propaganda reaction to the very serious evidence against evolutionism. No wonder that Hollywood's so-called stories "based on a real event" can't really be taken seriously.

5 out of 5 stars

Inherit the wind October 18, 2008
Ivan T. Santiago
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The movie is just a small sample that proves Bible is a bunch of baloney

Ivan- Brazil

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