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| Spencer Tracy | Henry Drummond |
| Fredric March | Matthew Harrison Brady |
| Gene Kelly | E. K. Hornbeck |
| Florence Eldridge | Mrs. Sarah Brady |
| Dick York | Bertram T. Cates |
| Harry Morgan | Judge Mel |
| Donna Anderson | Rachel Brown |
| Elliott Reid | Prosecutor Tom Davenport |
| Claude Akins | Rev. Jeremiah Brown |
| Noah Beery Jr. | John Stebbins |
| Norman Fell | WGN Chicago Radio Broadcaster |
In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond for the defense.
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