Movie Notes: Inherit the Wind - Year 1960

Movie Notes: Inherit the Wind-1960

Opened with song: Give Me That Old Time Religion

Shows Mr. Cates teaching Darwinian Evolution. No background given yet on the teacher.

Shows those who believe in Biblical creation:

as turning their eyes on progress
"Heavenly Hillsboro-A Return to Middle Ages" on Newspaper
"Does it have a hole in its head or its head in a hole?"

Banker "My friends, as you all know I deal with figures; accounts, checks, balances. My bank operates on the principle of practicle reality and so do I. Are you aware my friends that the great, big universities throughout the country will consider student applicants from our state ineligible because of this law? Now I don't know whose idea it was to hang a shingle on Hillsboro spelling horse and buggy. But as for me I wont invest in antiquity. I want my bank holding credit with New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and I may want my son to go to Yale. Now I believe in just about anyone in this room a basic fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible but we can't close our eyes to all progress (emphasis on "all").

they are seen as ignorant

Preachers daughter is in love with the teacher

"Rachel, I'm not trying to prove anything. All I want to do is teach my students that man was planted here like a geranium in a flower pot. That life comes from a long (..) that just didn't take seven days. " Burt

Old Time Religion sung again this time not by soloist but by the town in a parade.


The preacher is shown as a religious nut who won't listen to his daughter.

Only those who believe in evolution actually think.

Mr Cates (teacher) is continued to be shown as if he was always under this position. In reality he was a substitute teacher who actually taught gym.

The crowd is seen as unruly and hostile.

picket sign with pic of monkey and words, " I'm not one"


They said that Mr. Cates did this all on his own and that they are there just to help him receive justice. In reality, It was a plot from the beginning.

Science is seen pitted against the Bible.

They have Brady, the prosecuting lawyer say, "Sex is the original sin."

They call the book of Genesis, poetry. In reality it is written in historical narative.

They show in this movie that to not allow evolution to be taught that people are not being allowed to think. This is exactly what evolutionists are now doing to qualified scientists who believe in Biblical Creation.

Notes taken by
Steven Dickinson
editor of GodCreatedThat.com

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