Inherit the Wind

Excitement reaches fever point as all the folk of the small American town of Hillsboro gather in the town square to welcome, with drums beating and trumpets blowing, the great Matthew Harrison Brady, twice runner-up in the Presidential election, to their town, to prosecute the arrogant young teacher who has dares to teach Darwin's theory of evolution in contradiction of the story of the creation as written in the Holy Bible.  The Baltimore Herald engages the eminent but dreaded lawyer, Henry Drummond, for the defence and in the sweltering heat of summer the tense drama of the trial unfolds.