Inherit the Wind

Spencer Tracy does his cuddly curmudgeon turn as Clarence Darrow; it's a lazy, vague performance, but its wit provides the only crack of light in the film's somber, gray overcast.

Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists.

Extraordinarly vivid, rich, and wise about the core questions of how we know and who we are.

Inherit The Wind is a masterpiece.