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Movie "Inherit the Wind" was utterly FALSE in nearly everything it showed.

Posted by DFM on November 5, 2026, 6:32 am

Hollywood HATES the truth.

People in Columbus, TN, were THRILLED with the entire trial thing because they hoped that it would put the town truly on the map.
People gleefully welcomed ALL of the participants.
Almost nobody in the town gave a damn about Evolution.
William Jennings Bryant (WJB) was a strong progressive and NOT a conservative at all, and almost single-handedly rammed the Woman's right-to-vote amendment through Congress & the state legislatures.
WJB did not so much object to Evolution, but to the racist textbook used in the state to teach biology.
WJB was NOT a biblical literalist, but a strong anti-racist.
Scopes VOLUNTEERED to be the test case for the anti-evolution law and was never jailed.
Darrow and the ACLU were very UNHAPPY about the final non-guilty verdict which resulted on a technicality. They wanted a GUILTY verdict, so that they could appeal it to the Supreme Court and establish a national precedent.
About the only thing that the movie got right was the intolerable heat during the trial.

It was Dayton, TN, not Columbus.

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on November 7, 2026, 12:56 pm, in reply to "Movie "Inherit the Wind" was utterly FALSE in nearly everything it showed."

My bad.

Posted by DFM on November 7, 2026, 5:08 pm, in reply to "It was Dayton, TN, not Columbus."

Nothing is pure. Not yet.

Posted by GOG on November 5, 2026, 10:13 am, in reply to "Movie "Inherit the Wind" was utterly FALSE in nearly everything it showed."

Hollywood's purpose

Posted by Maverick on November 5, 2026, 8:16 am, in reply to "Movie "Inherit the Wind" was utterly FALSE in nearly everything it showed."

is to make money, lots and lots of it, through entertainment. The truth takes a back seat where profits are concerned. Hollywood loves sensationalism and distorted exaggerations because it sells. They are spin masters. Anyone who thinks that they can get a good education from Hollywood is delusional.

The Exorcist was claimed to be based on a true story but the film completely distorts what happened. Go to watch films for entertainment, that's fine. To get an education people need to go to reliable sources. The media is not reliable either. The age of the internet has enabled rumors, falsehoods, wild conspiracy theories to proliferate as never before.

I never saw Inherit the Wind. I am not familiar with the details of the case.

Inherit the Wind

Posted by DFM on November 6, 2026, 12:46 am, in reply to "Hollywood's purpose"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Wind_(1960_film)

Inherit the Wind is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss McCarthyism.[5] Written in response to the chilling effect of the McCarthy-era investigations on intellectual discourse, the film (like the play) is critical of creationism.

A television remake of the film which starred Melvyn Douglas and Ed Begley was broadcast in 1965. Another television remake that starred Jason Robards and Kirk Douglas aired in 1988. It was remade for television again in 1999, co-starring Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Brady.

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