Basato su un caso realmente accaduto nel 1925. Due grandi avvocati si schierano a favore e contro un insegnante di scienze accusato del crimine di insegnare l'evoluzione.Basato su un caso realmente accaduto nel 1925. Due grandi avvocati si schierano a favore e contro un insegnante di scienze accusato del crimine di insegnare l'evoluzione.Basato su un caso realmente accaduto nel 1925. Due grandi avvocati si schierano a favore e contro un insegnante di scienze accusato del crimine di insegnare l'evoluzione.
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- QuizTo heighten the tension of Spencer Tracy's final summation to the jury, the scene was filmed in a single take.
- BlooperDuring the voir dire phase of the trial concerning jury selection, Henry Drummond is forced to use his limited number of peremptory challenges to disallow prospective jurors who are obviously not interested in being impartial in any way to the point where one likens Prosecutor Matthew Brady to God. In that situation, Drummond should have called for such obviously biased prospective jurors to be struck for cause, a motion that can used an unlimited number of times with the permission of the court. If the court, which itself has obvious signs of partiality itself in the story, had rejected such a motion, Drummond could have resorted to using his peremptory challenges.
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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 faculty of man that raises him above the other creatures of the earth, the power of his brain to reason? What other merit have we? The elephant is larger, the horse is swifter and stronger, the butterfly is far more beautiful, the mosquito is more prolific. Even the simple sponge is more durable. But does a sponge think?
Matthew Harrison Brady: I don't know. I'm a man, not a sponge!
Henry Drummond: But do you think a sponge thinks?
Matthew Harrison Brady: If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks!
Henry Drummond: Do you think a man should have the same privilege as a sponge?
Matthew Harrison Brady: Of course!
Henry Drummond: [Gesturing towards the defendant, Bertram Cates] Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!
- Versioni alternativeDifferent versions of the opening credits exist with slightly different fonts. In general the film uses a copperplate-type font, but the early MGM widescreen DVD substitutes a different, rounder one on the three stars' names before the title, and has proportionally taller capitals throughout the rest. The Twilight Time Blu-ray uses the copperplate throughout with less pronounced size differences.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Viewpoint: Can We Bury the Hatchet? (1960)
- Colonne sonore(Gimme Dat) Old Time Religion
(uncredited)
Traditional spiritual
Sung by Leslie Uggams at the start of the movie
Reprised often by the Townfolks
Variations included often in the score
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- Budget
- 2.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 8 minuti
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- Proporzioni
- 1.66 : 1