What do you think of sex, General Brady?

Famous scene from the 1960 movie "Inherit the wind" - Spencer Tracy, as the defense attorney in the hystorical Scopes "Monkey" Trial, celebrates the miracle of the individual human mind...

[@donschmidt8203]

Two giants of the ancient art of acting grappling for dominion over the other. Tracy was loud and proud. March stubborn and unbending. In a more subtle way March's performance is just as brilliant. Watch the scene where he says to his wife, "They laughed at me mother. I can stand it when they laugh at me." So heart rending it makes you cry. Acting 101. A master class by the two greatest actors of their era. Maybe any era.

[@redbarchetta8782]

And here's a little trivia, both played Jekyll and Hyde to great success. :)

[@PremK-kd6eh]

Spencer was the first among most effortless actors

[@MichaelJohnson-fg1gm]

BRILLIANT SIMPLY MASTERFUL AND MAGNIFICENT .

[@redbarchetta8782]

What a scene.

[@jamesdrynan]

I always chuckle at the line, " Do you ever think about things that you DO think about? "

[@user-eo9ie7zn9p]

😂 Love these two...😮

[@TheGigmiester101]

If you pay attention, it's not General Brady but Colonel Brady

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

That's right..Gigmiester..and he wasn't even promoted to that military rank..he was given the honor to The State's millitia by the gov.

[@retroguy9494]

"In fact, he determined that the Lord began the creation on the twenty third of October 4004 B.C. at uh... 9 A.M." 😂😂 "Is that eastern standard time? Or rocky mountain time?" 😂🤣🤣

[@tomthumb1234]

its col. brady according to the movie...

[@CampSwampy18]

'ol Harry Morgan the judge should've interrupted them with "Horse hockey"!

[@tactteam00]

WIN

[@Elfspeth1]

Maybe after lunch

[@elmfork52]

This exchange is nowhere to be found in the transcript of the trial.

[@bscepter]

That's because this is a movie, not a documentary.

[@VtRD]

@@bscepter It is about thinking--which even today they want to outlaw. The acting here is top-notch, from everyone.

[@LadyCanu]

For a moment I thought the woman at the end was going to tell him: Matt...Matt, dear...you were POWNED...let´s go home.

[@user-eo9ie7zn9p]

Harry Morgan is the judge😢.

[@Shadowman4710]

Mr. Roper appears later as a radio technician.

[@retroguy9494]

Yes I know. I saw the movie!

[@isammolina4842]

Hoy no hay actores asi...que dejen el pellejo en cada escena...tampoco hay pelis asi...

[@user-rg7uh9se4c]

Bible has incredible scientific accuracy like round Earth and jet streams and the hydrologic cycle and much more!

[@leostales2681]

1:48

[@SSArcher11]

That's "Colonel" Brady, not General. He was promoted enough as it was.

[@berniestarzewski5482]

Col. Brady. Not general

[@TrueWalker88]

So much yelling.

[@Cationna]

0:17 Um... No, it's not. Not according to Bible. Maybe according to what the scenarist thought that would be convenient if Christians believed in, but not according to what Christians do believe in. Same old pattern... Puff, there goes the whole discussion. One can't argue with one's own, false and bias notions. But the very problem of imaginary antinomy of science and faith is purely artificial, so why should I be disappointed at this turning out to be a piece of offensive, absurd propaganda?..

[@VideoMask93]

The play wasn’t really about evolution and creationism, but McCarthyism and freedom to think. Though some Christians do misguidedly think that sex was the Original Sin, or at least that it came from it.

[@berniestarzewski5482]

@@VideoMask93 Religion and McCarthyism have a special link. And yes it was also about religion retarding the advancement of man. Eve did eat an apple. She ate from the tree of knowledge and as a nun once told me, "Once you lose your faith you can''t get it back!" Right, because you cannot unlearn what you have learned. It is this that frightens Brady more than anything because it threatens to free people from his grip. You should read Orwell's Notes On Nationalism in which he points out that religion is in fact one of the branches of that along with many others.

[@VideoMask93]

@@berniestarzewski5482 I would disagree with that nun who said you can't get faith back-I know quite a few people who have reverted to Catholicism after an irreligious period.

[@berniestarzewski5482]

@@VideoMask93 They may have simply yearned for the simple lack of conflict but nobody can unsee what they have seen. Some people just need the structure.

[@cgallegos2106]

@@VideoMask93 Well there was an actual trial, the “Scopes Monkey Trial” that the book was based on.