Inherit the wind...

[Skidmore]

Watching this movie(based on the Scopes trial) now, and this dialogue just gave me chills:


Henry Drummond: I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers.

Judge: Colonel Drummond...

Henry Drummond: Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!

Judge: I hope counsel does not mean to imply that this court is bigoted.

Henry Drummond: Well, your honor has the right to hope.

Judge: I have the right to do more than that.

Henry Drummond: You have the power to do more than that.

[lisa58]

1. I love that movie...

...must have seen it 20 times. Enjoy!

[butterfly77]

2. I am lookin

at it too,and the people marching down the street remind me of teabaggers..

[Skidmore]

4. Loved that dialogue too from the media guy about

that rabble being the people who fuel democracy.

[Tom_Foolery]

3. It's a masterpiece!!!

[Skidmore]

5. Youwzer! Dayum, they don't make movies the way they used to.

Henry Drummond:

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. brilliant casting, too.

[Tesha]

18. Amazing, ain't it? A movie where nothing gets "blowed up good!".

Nowadays, doesn't every movie contain at least
one explosion?

Tesha

[wellstone dem]

6. changed my plans for the day because I saw it was on

[malaise]

7. Great movie

Rec

[InvisibleTouch]

8. My favorite version was the one with Kirk Douglas...

...which was a made-for-TV movie many years ago, and does not seem to be available on video anywhere. :/

It's a great movie in any version, though!

[66 dmhlt]

16. Netflix has the Kirk Douglas "Inherit the Wind" ...

But it can only be played from online - not sent out as a disc:

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Inherit_the_Wind/70106292?trkid=2361637#height1399

(I've never used their online method because I'm deaf, and it doesn't have CC (Closed Caption) - or at least online movies didn't when it first became available.)

[InvisibleTouch]

17. I've never used Netflix.

I just wish the movie was available on DVD somewhere. I'm thinking I may still have it somewhere on VHS, taped off TV all those years ago, but no idea what the picture quality would be like by now.

Oh well. Thanks anyway. :)

[Inuca]

9. Great, great movie

wonderful script, and Tracy was amazing.

[LWolf]

11. I just finished watching it myself.

It's been decades since I did, and it was a good way to spend a cold, snow-bound Saturday morning.

[WillyT]

12. My Favorite Movie Of All Time !!! - Spencer Tracy, Fredrick March, Gene Kelly Version

Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing!

Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one thing that sets above the other animals? What other merit have we? The elephant is larger, the horse stronger and swifter, the butterfly more beautiful, the mosquito more prolific, even the sponge is more durable. Or does a sponge think?

Matthew Harrison Brady: I don't know. I'm a man, not a sponge!

Henry Drummond: Do you think a sponge thinks?

Matthew Harrison Brady: If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks!

Henry Drummond: Does a man have the same privilege as a sponge?

Matthew Harrison Brady: Of course!

Henry Drummond: Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!

[cynatnite]

13. One of my favorite all time favorites...

It's a shame that great classic movies like this aren't appreciated like they used to be.

[defendandprotect]

14. Great movie when it plays without cuts ... watched this morning.. Matthew Brady on stand--!!

[Tesha]

19. Please, please: "Mathew *HARRISON* Brady!" (NT)

[TahitiNut]

15. That movie made it clear that the teacher was married to a witch.

:dunce: