Summary:
The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the Showtime premium cable network. Jack Lemmon plays the celebrated trial lawyer who defends the teacher in a character based on %... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Jack Lemmon - (Darrow)
George C. Scott - (Bryan)
Piper Laurie
Beau Bridges - (Hornbeck)
Tom Everett Scott - (Scopes)
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Review:
This made-for-TV film is a worthy adaptation of the play that Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee completed in 1950 and staged in 1955. Its major theme, the sacredness of truth, was a paramount issue in the early '50s, a time when Sen. Joseph McCarthy's communist witch hunts bent truth into falsehood and innocence into guilt. Because this th... Continue >>

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