"Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding" what a great line!
@philiphalpenny9761
6 жыл бұрын
Thematically timeless. Spencer Tracy's highest compliment, as an actor, came from James Cagney. " I'm easy to immitate but you never saw anybody imitate Tracy. Reserve and self control are not easy to mimic"
@prc90s
5 жыл бұрын
Philip Halpenny Excellent post! Thank you.
@homersamson2635
4 жыл бұрын
Cagney's observation was true, and fascinating, agree great post.
@jeffreygolin7014
2 жыл бұрын
What Spencer Tracy foresaw and warned about has already happened right now, very prescient.
@carolinegooder7091
Жыл бұрын
The book would get banned today. Buy it for your local schools.
@jeffg1524
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Republican politicians in Texas are considering a bill that would give legal protection to teachers who present Creationism as a scientific theory. It is one of eight US states where similar laws have been proposed since the start of the year. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma and South Dakota are the others. Texas also signed a law to stop teachers from talking about racism, which is nothing more than an overt attempt to whitewash our history of slavery. Another example? A book like "The Life of Rosa Parks" is evidently too woke by the Republican Party. It's among 176 titles banned in Florida's Duval County. And this is just the start. In many red states there's a real resurgence of Christian nationalism in this country that want to foist their religionist views on students. All this almost 100 years after the Scopes Trial. To those who think we were past such intolerance and stupidity, think again.
@grantsmythe8625
Жыл бұрын
Yes, the book burners of yesteryear have had grandchildren and they are our neighbors.
@joeblack8915
10 ай бұрын
Spenser Tracy didn't warn us about anything. He was a great actor, acting a part of a character.
@poe2299
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely one of the best movies ever.
@1r1sh52
17 жыл бұрын
God, this is still one of the greatest movies, and none of the remakes ever came close. What a speech! As relevant today as it was to the Scopes trial.
@kurman4749
Жыл бұрын
In my opinion, Spencer Tracy had no peers as an actor. Acting came so naturally to this giant of the silver screen, and he remains, for me at least, the standard by which every actor should be measured.
@Shadowman4710
5 ай бұрын
I saw an interview with the late, great James Garner done a few years before his death, where he was asked who was his greatest influence as an actor. Garner smiled and said "That would be Mr. Tracey."
@Handsome85
12 жыл бұрын
"THIS COMMUNITY IS AN INSULT TO THE WORLD!" Epic! Spencer Tracy at his best right here!!!
@deriter64
10 жыл бұрын
Whatever one thinks about the issues of the Scopes trial it's always a pleasure to see two great talents like Spencer Tracy and Frederic March at work,
@sdsteeler09
11 жыл бұрын
spencer tracy left me speechlees
@jackspry9736
2 жыл бұрын
RIP and long live Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 - June 10, 1967), aged 67 You will always be remembered as a legend.
@kasig2013
11 жыл бұрын
Damn. Just damn. That was chilling.
@fernandpessina2878
10 жыл бұрын
The greatest movie ever
@oneputtsteven
7 жыл бұрын
Certainly one of the best
@dogkungfu8510
3 жыл бұрын
I was intrigued in high school. Just makes me cry today...
@emeralds222
15 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I have never seen this movie.. all students in the bible belt should be shown this.
@hippiegirl58
13 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for posting my favorite movie in the drama category. Everyone should see this film at least once.
@greekyboy123
16 жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favourite films. Incredible to think that so many years after the 'Monkey Trial' that the issues discussed still resonate so strongly, and with such relevance to our times. Many thanks for posting this.
@pixarfreak1993
10 жыл бұрын
So true and powerful.
@Shadowman4710
5 ай бұрын
For my money, still the greatest American screen actor of the 20th century.
@ClairePeine
15 жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved this performance; it makes me feel so happy that one of my teachers has similar conviction toward certain subjects like the character of Drummond, here.
@karmakrash
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Get 'em, Spencer!
@nohomers100
11 жыл бұрын
Wow...what an actor
@lucianene7741
11 жыл бұрын
One of the finest pieces of cinema ever to see the screen. I've never encountered a movie so dense, so full of ideas, so laden with brilliant dialogue. Such strong characters, so much tension in the air you can almost touch it. Spencer Tracy is legendary.
@guaranaa
16 жыл бұрын
brilliant speech
@amerikannadigamagu
12 жыл бұрын
I love this so much! It gives me chills... beautifully delivered, and I'm in complete agreement with what he is saying. It makes me want to watch the movie! Thank you for sharing!
@cirosuperiore
13 жыл бұрын
THAT'S WHY Tracy is by far the best artist in the movie industry.
@majhiggins
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely one of the finest soliloquies ever put into drama. Kind of wraps around H.L. Menkin's (and he was one of the journalists covering this actual trial) famous quote. "When fascism comes to America it will be carrying a bible and draped in the flag."
@k8aik8ai
2 жыл бұрын
Mencken was wrong, fascism ironically came wearing skinny jeans, man buns and carrying soy lattes.
@lazaroskarmaniolas7410
2 жыл бұрын
@@k8aik8ai I didn't see these people you speak of trying to raid the Capitol Building a year ago. I did see a lot of God-fearing, freedom-loving, Confederate-waving people though...
@fredhall5038
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps so, but who knew it would be a flag the colors of a rainbow?
@Foxxorz
11 жыл бұрын
You just can't say it any better than that. Amazing writing from that era.
@proud2bpagan
11 жыл бұрын
an amazing performance by Mr.Tracy! Anyone else know that the real trial was a publicity stunt by the city,meant to draw tourists?The city paid the fine for the teacher,and he agreed to let them try him. An amazing business proposition,masterfully done.
@jimmym5149
10 жыл бұрын
Frederic March and Spencer Tracy giving two of the finest performances in film history! And Gene Kelly is amazing in a rare dramatic turn! Powerful!!
@ChrisRayGun
10 жыл бұрын
I asked you for the glaring holes and you can't even point to one. Brilliant.
@MrImiller07
10 жыл бұрын
Spencer Tracy was in bad health for the last eight to nine years of his life; he was compelled to withdraw from projects including The Cincinatti Kid with McQueen. Notwithstanding this fact, he made several memorable films directed by Stanley Kramer, including this adaptation of Inherit The Wind. He was nominated for Best Actor Oscars for three of the four Kramer productions.
@Attessya
15 жыл бұрын
Simply a wonderful movie! I watched it for the first time when I was a lot younger. I didn't even remember that it was in back&white, but it made a deep impression and I'm glad I was able to find and watch it again. I am an atheist, but I'm grateful sometimes for the existence of religion. Without the fear of a higher power and punishment, most people would create chaos, yet I can't help but remember all those that have been unjustly "punished" in the name of a loving and forgiving God.
@cliffshell
17 жыл бұрын
This was one of the finest movie/plays of the 1960's. I did a cutting from this while in college and the dialogue holds up as well today as it did then. Tracy and March were still at the top of their game when they made this and March remained so through "Hombre", seven years later. Hard to beat "old" Hollywood for nostalgia!
@rouzbehazshab
10 жыл бұрын
Greate movie.So important.
@sdsteeler09
11 жыл бұрын
speechless me
@TallminJ
11 жыл бұрын
Great book
@globalchaos1984
13 жыл бұрын
This is amazing, one of my favorite movies.
@BlueLeopard200
11 жыл бұрын
amazing delivery by Spencer Tracy no wonder this guy has 9 best actor nominations
@kevinkurtz9889
Жыл бұрын
Another of his great speeches. They would burn him at the stake today.
@xavineira9403
5 жыл бұрын
🤯 FUK! This actor was amazing...we don’t have anyone that can perform like him. I don’t even think anyone can imitate.
@Biderbeck
12 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!! thanks for posting...man they don't make movies like they used to
@SinHurr
10 жыл бұрын
The time before air conditioning truly was barbaric.
@NevadaBoss
5 ай бұрын
Amazing how more than six decades later, this speech is actually MORE relevant to large portions of a certain country...believe me. Bigly.
@twylagauthreaux9153
7 жыл бұрын
One of our favorites. Just like today.
@gpwerner
16 жыл бұрын
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding." :) Nobody writes like this today. Why not? The world needs insight like this, now more than ever.
@MegaKennedy2000
12 жыл бұрын
Spencer tracy was such a great actor.
@docdave15
10 жыл бұрын
This film is not a "RELIGION BAD" movie. It's about fanaticism. It's about how being overly consumed with one philosophy can be destructive. Drummond in the film represents the middle ground, and both Brady and Hornbeck are staunch members of opposing beliefs (or lack there of).
@JimmySteller
10 жыл бұрын
Actually I've heard from a couple of people that Hornbeck is the real villain because he has no real beliefs in anything. Drummond himself says that all Hornbeck does is smirk at everything that people feel, or want, or struggle for. I for one think it makes him a tragic figure by the end, personally, but the point is that Hornbeck believes in nothing but himself, and that means nobody will be there to remember him when he goes. He knows this, and he's inwardly tortured by it, but like Oscar Wilde, he puts on a laughing mask and taunts the world so that he need not look where the real joke lies.
@docdave15
10 жыл бұрын
and you aren't exactly helping your cause either. And I wasn't agreeing with Mr. Steller himself, but you aren't making a great case for yourself and your cause as well. Going over the top on both sides is harmful and serves no benefits for either side.
@docdave15
10 жыл бұрын
Wow, it only took you the third comment to start insulting. It's condescending, smug comments like this that make me never take someone's side seriously, non-believer/believer it doesn't matter. The topic of faith/spirituality is a worth wild topic, but not when you're giving comments like that.
@Nexus974
16 жыл бұрын
What a great actor.
@hippiegirl58
12 жыл бұрын
This script sets the gold standard. Brilliant!
@PJINCALIF
4 жыл бұрын
Tracy was the greatest actor in film history!
@VtRD
11 жыл бұрын
"...fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding....." That's the message, and Spence delivered it well.
@JackJ1957
15 жыл бұрын
It will. And you will remember this exchange for eternity.
@Davedio
4 жыл бұрын
I really cannot think of any other actor other than Spencer Tracy who could have been able to deliver the complete passionate performance his role demanded. No disrespect to March, he is also indispensable. Tracy just simply IS Drummond.
@howedelamitri
15 жыл бұрын
great movie
@Madbandit77
12 жыл бұрын
Amen, brother.
@purepinoii
13 жыл бұрын
i love this movie!
@liquidsnakeckw
11 жыл бұрын
that was awesome
@emeralds222
15 жыл бұрын
thanks I will check it out
@BobMori
14 жыл бұрын
"Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs constant feeding." Play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Screenplay by Nedrick Young originally as Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith
@creamofcardstv
17 жыл бұрын
Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's movie stars: Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Fay Wray from King Kong, Bing Crosby, Kay Francis and many more.
@vecchiosilvi
8 жыл бұрын
WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
@JimmySteller
12 жыл бұрын
1960. And it's still as powerful now as it was then. Perhaps even more powerful.
@joanienoeldechen4133
3 жыл бұрын
Great.
@ekathe85
14 жыл бұрын
Yep, I always remember that one. Jack Lemmon played a great Drummond, too
@JackJ1957
15 жыл бұрын
May you have good health, great wealth, and a long life. Pleasure chatting with you!
@ekhornbeck127
15 жыл бұрын
will someone PLEASE post the pre trial scene between tracy, kelley and york. its like walking down an empty street listening to your own footsteps, but all you have to do is knock on any door and say if you let me in, i'll live the way you want me to live and i'll think the way you want me to think, and all the blinds will go up and all the doors will open and you'll never be lonely... ever again.
@sands7779
2 жыл бұрын
So relevant in the United States today.
@lawrence142002
13 жыл бұрын
Harry Morgan, who played the Judge is still alive today. (He's better known as Col. Potter from MASH or Gannon from Dragnet)... This is a great scene.
@ksim43
13 жыл бұрын
@cirosuperiore He did this whole scene in one take (more than is shown here).
@platinumtank892
12 жыл бұрын
What ELECTRICITY!!!
@sagabhcrew
13 жыл бұрын
EPIC!
@cherryberry360
16 жыл бұрын
This scene should not be forgotten, especially with all the worrying news coming out of the southern US states.
@JackJ1957
15 жыл бұрын
"When all this comes true - and it surely will - then they will know that a prophet has been among them." YHWH Ezekiel 33:33.
@teawithsu
12 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant movie. I'm glad to see how th Tide has changed. I've seem people so enlightened that I no longer fear our future. We're seeing a huge wave of spiritually intelligent people who strive to heal our world with knowledge and compassion for all of Life, not just stupid humans who can do trick or cast magic spells.
@gentlerat
12 жыл бұрын
The original play was written in the McCarthy era. It was a time when people worried about people with the wrong ideas getting publicly humiliated, even if it wasn't encoded in law yet. This speech sums it up pretty well. If they wanted to represent an actual event in the past, they would have kept the same names, which they didn't. Instead, they wanted to use subtle means to talk about the present, or by the time this movie was made, the recent past.
@garrofwar148
10 жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to me, all the idiots in my Religion class fell asleep or were texting! It was such a good movie!
@gammarotor
11 жыл бұрын
From what I understand the other actors on a movie Spencer was in couldn't tell when he was "On" or "Off". His performance went seemlessly from a coffee break to Roll cameras.
@ChrisRayGun
10 жыл бұрын
Newton could've been a Nazi Werewolf and it wouldn't have made a difference because his research was based not in his beliefs but rather the actual world around him. His belief in God didn't effect the outcome of his ideas. Alright, genius. Tell me. What are the glaring holes in evolution. I could use a good laugh.
@artisanmage5378
6 жыл бұрын
Chris Ray Gun oh look, chris is here.
@mrfivegold
3 жыл бұрын
Well considering evolution when explained says that drastic change happens over centuries of breeding, I don't doubt it as a process of genetic engineering, I do doubt it can drastically change a sea living microscopic bacteria, into a human. Considering the same carbon dating has proven a identical human foot print preserved in stone is over 2 million years old, but still has the same characteristics of a modern human foot. I do not think humans evolved from germs or fish or even monkeys, we maybe related to monkeys, but I believe the basis of prehistoric humans was far closer to modern man, than apes.
@gigachad4300
3 жыл бұрын
@@mrfivegold so what? The evolution of man took over 6 million years and one of the first changes was converting the opposable thumbs into toes and kept the same design ever since, why would we share 99/98% of dna with the closest looking/behaving (same ears, same hands, same sets of teeth, incredible intelligence, only animal that is humorous next to humans, same feet structure except they have opposable thumbs and longer toes for climbing because we were evolved for walking on the ground, self medicate) the chimpanzee and bonobos, it doesn’t make sense, the sugar glider doesn’t share that similar genetics with flying squirrels despite being so similar in lifestyle and looks than humans and chimps, so it isn’t some sort of code that makes organism share similar genetics if they looked or/and lived the same way as each other. “Aquatic bacteria” didn’t drastically change into humans, or if your definition of drastically is 594 million years then you are correct How is the evidence of 2 million years old foot prints of humans is proof that evolution is wrong?
@mrfivegold
3 жыл бұрын
@@gigachad4300 but there is no proof bacteria became humans.
@gigachad4300
3 жыл бұрын
@@mrfivegold why are you insisting that bacteria became humans? They became many things at first leading to our existence, scientists have also witnessed with their own eyes that single-celled algae evolves into a multicellular organism, that could’ve happened to us too single-celled organism turning into vertebrates and invertebrates leading to our evolution
@ZackGomez198035
9 жыл бұрын
In one of the most dramatic moments of the academy award winning film version of Inherit the Wind two of the great actors of the previous century confront one another. I was told to look up this clip for my critical reading class and now I'm going to put the movie on hold at my public library. It shows critical thinking skills which are very important in today's world. Something that millenials are lacking.
@SamuelFister
8 жыл бұрын
+Zack Gomez Millennial here, and this is my favorite film. I've watched it so much I've had to convert my tape of it because it was starting to get worn down. I can quote it damn near word for word. I agree many from my generation rely on Facebook to get their opinions and bandwagon far too often based on whose twitter they follow, but I personally think every issue must be looked at from all sides, and all concepts must be thought about in as unbiased a way as possible, considering what benefits an opposing viewpoint can bring to your own understanding. (Excuse my run-on sentence)
@flowerbedmusic2674
8 ай бұрын
Loved it since I was a child. So important especially these days where anyone swimming against the tide is seen as a threat. Shame the visual quality is so bad. Unenlightened minds will be put off.
@lonebison
14 жыл бұрын
Such a great movie! The sad thing is, this is still being repeated today in our science & reason challenged country.
@SirSmoldham
12 жыл бұрын
Excellent choice. "How old do you think this rock is?"
@DaUziel
11 жыл бұрын
I'm saying we aren't better. But we will.
@JackJ1957
15 жыл бұрын
Good health, great wealth and long life to you, "revengeo." May you be happy and avoid any great sorrow. Pleasure debating you.
@1polonium210
16 жыл бұрын
Sign on one of the highways entering Kansas: Welcome to Kansas. Turn your clocks back 1000 years.
@Cervezasi
15 жыл бұрын
God in Heaven, where have all the Spencer Traceys gone?
@Dfcameron13
4 жыл бұрын
Stuart Smith - there was only ONE Spencer Tracy - they broke the mold after him
@sunnymarky
14 жыл бұрын
great posting sums up the USA
@1n354a
15 жыл бұрын
Borel's Law, as creationist like to refer to it as, was a "rule of thumb" statement made by the mathematician in order to help laymen come to grips with very small possibilities. The value given was neither a theorem nor a lemma nor even a formal definition.
@gabiotta
15 жыл бұрын
You win the prize! Best comment i have read today.
@superdavid002
14 жыл бұрын
I sing about Tracy and others in The Celebrity Song.
@scottmiller6495
5 жыл бұрын
Oh my God how true and powerful. People are like that now and its really terrible !!!!!
@kittykitty101001
11 жыл бұрын
My 10th grade biology class had to watch this movie, and many of the students were either sleeping or texting while the movie was going on. Damned, idiots missed out on watching a great movie. It's horrible how my fellow younger generation thinks that black and white=boring.
@MrMike9267
11 жыл бұрын
isn't it frightening how close we are to having this type of trial again have we learnt nothing there's none so blind as those who will not see
@rebenjam
11 жыл бұрын
It only has that effect if it is what you are looking for. This film, as I'm sure you are aware, was based on a play which was in turn based on a real trial in the 1920s. The play was written as a criticism of McCarthyism in the US. One of the playwrights himself said (and I'm paraphrasing) that the play wasn't about science vs religion, it was about a man's right to think for himself.
@Existantia
15 жыл бұрын
Yeah it's a wicked movie. Timeless. It's great to read the play too. Each time I read it, I found things I hadnt notice the first time. You should also check out "Waiting for Godot". You may like it : )
@SpookyJohnathan
12 жыл бұрын
....damn....
@Sfmonterey
13 жыл бұрын
The words (if not quite the scene) is almost a verbatim quote from Clarence Darrow. They occurred at the beginning of the trial.
@teawithsu
12 жыл бұрын
Can't wait til my good friend Dave Warwak finishes the screenplay for Inherit The Earth.
@sdsteeler09
11 жыл бұрын
spencer tracy
@MyYummycookie
13 жыл бұрын
@NorCalibrator Oh, thank you for replying, your comment was very helpful to me. ; )
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