All language subtitles for Inherit The Wind (1999)-Eng

English subtitle by:
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- Good morning, young ladies and gentlemen.
- Good morning

And visitors.

For our science lesson today,

we shall continue our discussion of

Darwin's theory of the descent of man.

As I told you, yesterday�

Darwin's theory tells us

that we evolved
from a lower order of animals...

from the first Wiggly protozoa here in
the sea�

to the ape, and finally to man

Bertram T. Cates?

Come on, Sam.
You've known me all my life.

Bertram Cates...
you're charged with violation of public act 31428

volume 37, state code,

which makes it unlawful
for any teacher of public school

to teach any theory that denies

the creation of man as taught in the Bible

and to teach instead that man has
descended from a lower order of animals.

Bertram T. Cates,
I hereby place you under arrest.

An American martyr was born, this morning.

Precisely at 8 A.M. Eastern Standard Time.

His name is Bertram Cates,

Where?
At the lovely Hillsboro, if you please.

And the almanac says the population is 2,164.

Elevation: 702 feet,

And intelligence quotient: zero.

It would be the common new capital for the entire uncivilized world.

And we need to spread the word quickly about Hillsboro, here.

but the machine gun of the telegraph keys

We�ll report the trial of the century:
It's Darwin versus Jehovah.

And the devil takes the hand Moses

Get me a ticket on the next train, now.

- Everybody just calm down
- Listen

"Monkey Shines In Hillsboro."

"The Monkey trial!"

That telling the whole world's laughing at us.

Here's another one.
This was from Chicago.

"Heavenly Hillsboro. Does it have
a hole in its head�

or its head in a hole?"

I'm telling you we've gone too far.

Oh, let them laugh. I'm telling you, we fighting
the Lord's battle, here.

I'd rather have some heathen laughing at me�

than have my sons laughing at my Bible.

They mocked the Lord too, that night.

They smote him and spat upon him
and he turned to them his other cheek.

Reverend, we don't want to smite them
back..

We just want to make them stop

Tom, you're a prosecuting attorney.

Isn't something we can we do?

In view of my position, I hardly think
it ethical to express my opinion.

Maybe you'd better go back to law school then.

I mean, what do we care what a bunch
of city and foreigners slickers think?

Ever had a Frenchman at your hotel?

What about you, Joe?

How long since you sold a pound of grits
to some fancy men from New York city?

- No. You're not at this point.
- Hold on!

Friends, Friends

as you all know, I deal with figures:
accounts, cheques, balances.

My bank operates on the principle
of practical reality and so do I.

Are you aware my friends that the great universities

will consider applicants and students from
our state ineligible�

�because of this law?

I don't know whose idea was that

hang up a shingle in Hillsboro,

spelling "horse and buggy"
but, as for me, I won't invest in antiquity.

I want my bank holding credit
with New York,

Pennsylvania, Illinois

And I may want my son to go to Yale.

Now, I believe in as much as anyone in this room,
in a basic fundamentalist interpretation

of the Bible.

But we can't close our eyes to all progress�

Wait a minute! "Matthew Harrison Brady
volunteers to prosecute in monkey trial."

Matthew Harrison Brady.

God has sent us his right hand.

Matt. Brady and I'll be working with him.

They'll pour out of the hills. This town
will fill up like a rain barrel in a flood.

- It'll be bigger than the State fair.
- And they'll need a place to sleep.

Almost people gotta eat.

This will put Hillsboro
on the map of this country.

We must give thanks to the Lord.
Let us pray.

You better start praying, son.

Imagine, Matthew Harrison Brady
Coming here.

I voted for him for president,

Twice, in 1900 and again in '08.

I wasn't old enough to vote for him
the first time he run, but my pa did.

I've seen him once at a Chautauqua meeting in Chattanooga.

When he spoke, the tent poles shook.

- Who's your lawyer, son?
- I don't know yet.

some organization in New York is supposed to send somebody.

Yeah? he'd better be loud.

Who could it be?

Oh, Bert.
You don't mind, do you?

Just for the looks of it.
Can't tell who it might be.

I'm supposed to be in jail
I'd better be in jail.

I'm coming, I'm coming...

- Who is it?
- Mr. Meeker?

Well, hello Rachel! Come on in.

Ah, you got a present for Bert?

Mr. Meeker, please don't tell my father I came here.

The Reverend don't tell me his business.

Don't know why I should tell him mine?

- Is Bert all right?
- Don't know why he shouldn't be?

I always figured the safest place in the world is in jail.

Long as I�ve been bailiff, we've never had nothing but drunks, vagrants...

...couple of chicken thieves.

Seems kind of queer having a school teacher in jail

Might improve the writing on the walls.

You, wait here. I�ll bring him up

Don't run off, Bert.

Bert, Tell them you're sorry.
it was all a mistake. Please...

Sure. Tell them if they let my body out of jail, I'd lock up my mind

Could you stand that, Rachel?

- At least we'd be together.
- It wouldn't be the same

- It wouldn't be the�.
- Rach.

Do you remember those warm dark nights
down by the river bank?

Wondering what the stars were for,

Or what's on the other side of the moon.

There'd be no more of that.

- We could still have that.
- No, no, Rachel. we couldn't.

You got another visitor, Bert.

So this is where the fate of learning�

will be decided for the next 10,000 years.

Can it be that both beauty and biology are on our side?

Who are you?

Hornbeck is my name. EK Hornbeck.
Baltimore Herald.

Oh yes. I heard about it.

My typewriter's been singing a sweet sad song...

... about the Hillsboro heretic,
B Cates: latter-day Dreyfus,

Romeo with a biology book.

- And�you must be Juliet.
- My name is Rachel Brown.

You make me sound like a martyr.

You could be.
But you haven't won your halo yet.

That won't come until after they've
tossed you into the arena with the lion.

- You mean Brady?
- bull's-eye.

I don't want Bert to be a martyr.

What are you trying to prove, anyway?

Good question

All I wanna do is teach my students that

The man wasn't just stuck here like a geranium in a flower pot.

That living comes from a long miracle,
it didn't just happen in seven days.

I couldn�t have said it better.

But it's against the law.
A schoolteacher is a public servant.

You should do what the law
and the school board tell to do.

I don't see anything funny in all this,
Mr. Hornbeck.

Objection sustained. Neither do I.

Then why don't you leave us alone?

You newspaper people have stirred up
enough trouble for Bert.

What do you want anyway?

I came to tell boy Socrates here
that the Baltimore Herald

...is opposed to hemlock

Don't worry, Juliet.

I may be rancid butter,
but I'm on your side of the bread.

- I'm afraid, Bert.
- I'm afraid too.

Friends, Hillsboro.

Mrs. Brady and I
are delighted to be among you.

We all voted for you. Three times!

I sincerely hope it was in 3 separate elections.

I can only wish for one thing:
that you had not given us
quite so warm a welcome.

- Here you are, Mr. Brady.
- Oh bless you, no, thank you.

Mr. Matthew Harrison Brady,
as mayor of Hillsboro

may I say this municipality
is proud to have�

within its city limits
the warrior who has always fought

... for us ordinary people.

The lady folk of this town
would not have the vote

if it hadn't been for you fighting
to give them all that suffrage.

Mr. President Wilson would never have
got to the White House and won the war

if it wasn't for you supporting him
and being...

�his secretary of state.

In conclusion�

A fan, Mr.?
compliments from Mason Funeral Parlour.

- Just 5 cents.
- I'd rather die first.

�a commission as honorary colonel
in the state militia!

"Colonel Brady."
I like the sound of that.

who, may I ask,
is the spiritual leader of the community?

The Reverend Jeremiah Brown.

Oh, How do you do, Sir?
Would you stay right here, stand on my right?

- My pleasure, Sir.
- Thank you.

My friends of Hillsboro,
you know why I have come here.

Not merely to prosecute a lawbreaker,
I have come�

because something has happened in a school in your town

That has unloosed a wicked attack
from the big cities of the North.

We did not seek this struggle.

We are simple people who ask only
to live in brotherhood and peace,

to cherish our loved ones,

to teach our children the ways
of righteousness and of the Lord.

But what would they teach them these idolaters�

These priests of evolution,

what would they have them do?

They would have them
measure the distance between the stars

and forget him who holds the stars in his hand.

They've rubbed them off the creator of the beginning...

... and the hope of heaven in the end.

And for the morality of brotherly love...

... They've substituted the immorality of self-love.

They are lost, my friends, for I tell you

If man believes he is descended
from the beasts,

he must remain a beast

And as the young wolf turns upon the old,

So these innocent ones,
corrupted and despairing of salvation,

will turn upon their fathers,

and our land of Sodom and Gomorrah,
pestilence, the fire of hatred and death.

And for this crime, this crime against man and God.

That we must make an example of that teacher ...

who sowed the seed of frustration and despair

... in the minds of our young men here.

The whole world must see how this criminal ...

No! It isn't true.

Bert Cates is not a criminal.

- What's your name, young lady?
- Rachel Brown.

She's my daughter, Colonel Brady.

Your daughter, Reverend. A lovely young woman, she's too.

- Are you a school teacher too, I see?
- Yes.

I'm sure you teach according to precepts of the Lord?

Yes, I'll try.

Has this Mr. Cates ever try to pollute your mind
with any his heathen dogmas?

Bert isn't a heathen, Mr. Brady.
He's only...

Rachel !

No, no, my friends. This young woman has an inability to recognize the face of evil ...

... testifies to her own innocence.

My dear, I understand your feeling of loyalty,
of Christian charity, if you will

That moved you to defend your colleague fallen from grace,

And I have no personal against that young man.

But he is condemned by his own act.

And no one on earth can defend him
from the just punishment that awaits him.

Do you take a few questions, Colonel Brady?

- Naturally. Do I know you, sir?
- I'm working for the press.

E.K Hornbeck of the Baltimore Herald.

I love him taking issue with the mocking tone of Mr. Hornbeck�s columns.

But I will retain in his inquiry rented land

I'm wondering if you have any reaction...

...to who your adversary is going to be in this case?

Well, I've not got been informed who my adversary is...

but I get believe I'm defending right just a cause,

... that won't make any difference.

It�s Henry Drummond, Colonel.
Does he make a difference?

Who's Henry Drummond?

Henry Drummond is an atheist, he's officious...

...a godless man, a creature of darkness, an agent of the devil.

- Don't let him in the town!
- Keep him out! Keep him out!

- Keep him out! Keep him out!
- Keep him out!

- Keep him out! Keep him out!
- Keep him out! Keep him out!

Friends, please.

I believe we should
welcome Henry Drummond.

If the enemy sends his Goliath into battle,
it magnifies our cause.

Henry Drummond has stalked
the courtrooms of this land for 40 years.

When he fights, headlines follow.

The whole world will be watching
our victory over Drummond.

If St George had killed a dragonfly instead
of a dragon,

who would remember him?

We're here in Hillsboro to have the opportunity to slay not only the devil's disciple...

but the devil himself!

Rachel, I waited supper for you. It's on the table.

Peace will come, my daughter.

We must thank God
that the sinner stands naked and exposed.

- Stop preaching, Pa.
- You're upset, my darling.

I have something to tell you.

- Let's eat something.
- No.

- We'll talk after.
- Right now

I'm not leaving Bert.

I don't understand.
You heard what Mr. Brady said.

I love him, Pa. I love him.

That's the love of Judas.

Rachel, this man has nothing to offer you but sin.

What's he done?

What's he done that's so terrible?
Why do you hate him so?

Because I love God
and I hate his enemies.

Bert loves God.

Then what is he doing with Henry Drummond?

Why is he bringing Henry Drummond?

Down here to spew his
atheistic filth into

�the ears of our people?

Rachel, Rachel. You're a schoolteacher.

You know how easy it is to mold minds
for good or

... to twist them for evil

Bert didn't twist any minds.

You are infected with the poison of his agnosticism!

Rachel, Rachel.
Get down on your knees, beg for your forgiveness.

- Forgiveness for what?
- Because you've betrayed me

- You have betrayed your faith
- I'm not betraying anybody.

I've pleasured your mother's not alive
to hear this.

- Pa, listen to me.
- After a few years...

Watching down from heaven,

...I ask her to forgive you, to forgive me.

- Forgive me, Mother. Oh, dear God
- Pa, ever since I was a little girl,

- Forgive me, for I have sinned...
- I'd wake up afraid of the dark...

- �like the whole house was upside down
- Oh dear God!

and if I didn't hang on to the mattress,
I'd fall out into the sky.

I wanted to run to you
to have you tell me that I was safe,

- I try, beloved father...
- that everything was all right, but..

- I was always more afraid of you than of falling.
- I have failed!

- It's the same way now!
- I have failed! I have failed! I have failed!

- Pa
- Tell me what to do, Guide my faltering steps.

I love my daughter.
How can I save her? Tell me what to do.

Pa! Get up, get up, get up.

And I will sprinkle clean water upon you

- Get up.
- And you shall be clean.

And a new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit put within you.

No.

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Hillsboro!

- Thank you.
- Thank you, Sir.

- Hello, devil. Welcome to hell.
- Hello, Hornbeck.

- Hey, Do you know where the Mansion House is?
- That�s right I�m staying. Follow me.

Hillsboro, Heavenly Hillsboro,

the buckle on the Bible belt.

Popcorn

- Wants to?
- No.

Like a circus. Huh?

Look at that!

Grandpa! Welcome to Hillsboro.

Have you come to testify for the prosecution or for the defense?

Popcorn?

You�re on the jury, kid.

- Hey, hey, are you Henry Drummond?
- Yes. I am.

- I'm Royce McHenry, farmer hereabouts.
- Nice to know you, Mr. McHenry

I wanna tell you
we're just plain folk down here.

We don't need no outsiders
to tell us how or what to think.

Well, That isn't my mission, Mr. McHenry.

Well, why don't you go back
where you came from?

They're a bit rough around here.

Their messiah arrived yesterday.

Why don't you give
your ulcers a break and go home?
You'll win no victories here.

Listen. I've been a lawyer long enough
to know there are no total victories anywhere.

Talk of victories�

There's only one man in this town
who thinks at all.

and he's in jail

That's why I'm here.

A welcoming for you.

Mr. Drummond, We're all members
of Mr. Cates' homeroom and biology class.

We like Mr. Cates...

And we hope you do right by him.

I do too, son. I do too.

Oh, thank you.

And we would carry to fight to the people of our sovereign state...

Sarah, You're looking as lovely as always.

- Oh, It's so good to see you again, Henry.
- Excuse me, gentlemen.

I only wish it hadn't been under these circumstances.

- Henry Drummond! How are you, Henry?
- Hello, Matt.

Well, I see you've already made friends some of the young, I said.

Well, youth appeals to me these days.

We are not getting any younger.

You are eating again.

Oh, Matt, you know what the doctor said
about overeating in this heat.

Don't worry, Mother.
We need strength for the fight ahead.

- Your room keys
- Oh, it's you again, Mr. Hornbeck.

I read your article yesterday.
Very biased reporting, I must say.

It is the newspaper's duty
to comfort the afflicted

and afflict the comfortable.

See you in court, counsel.

I don't like that fella!

Come on, Henry. Let me introduce you to
some of the good people of Hillsboro...

This is Mr. Carter, the mayor

- Welcome to Hillsboro, Mr. Drummond.
- Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Prosecuting attorney for this district,
Mr. Davenport. We'll be working together.

Mr. Drummond, Sir. I want to assure you
that while we may not agree with your ideas,

But certainly, we respect your right to voice them.

Good boy.

Mr. Drummond and I fought side by side in a good many battles

for the rights of the common people of this country.

Twice he campaigned for me
when I ran for president.

- Isn't that right, Henry?
- That's right Matt.

After all these years we find ourselves
on the opposite side

- �of an issue.
- Well, that's an evolution for you.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you.

Sir.

Take your seat on Juror Bob, Mr. Jenkins.

Mr. Meeker, call a venireman to fill
the twelfth seat on the jury.

Jesse H. Dunlap.
You're next, Jesse.

I don't want more that picture take in out. I warn you.

And I'll tolerate no disturbance,
nor demonstrations in this courtroom

This is a trial, not a dog and pony show.

He has been stuffing himself
with fried chicken and belching platitudes.

You reporters, keep your voices down, or I�ll get you out of the court.

I just got yelled at. I�ll call you back.

will the court entertain a motion
on a matter of procedure?

Will the learned prosecutor
state the motion?

It called to my attention...

that the temperature in this room
is now 97 degrees Fahrenheit.

And it may get hotter.

I don't think that
the dignity of the court will suffer

... should we dispose a few superfluous outer garments

Does the defense have any objection
to Colonel Brady's motion?

No, but I was wondering if...

... the dignity of this court
can be upheld with these galluses I've got on.

We'll take that chance, Mr. Drummond.

Those who wish to remove
their coats may do so.

Is the counsel for the defense
showing us the latest fashion from

the great metropolitan city of Chicago?

I'm glad you asked that.
As you see, I brought these along with special.

Just happened I pert-estimate in the general store,
in your home town, Mr. Brady,

Weeping Waters, Nebraska.

Let us proceed with the selection
of the final juror..

State your name and occupation.

Jesse H. Dunlap. Farm's equipment,

- ...we sell tractors...
- Sit down, Jesse.

Do you believe in the Bible, Mr. Dunlap?

I believe in the holy word of God
And Matthew Harrison Brady.

Amen!

I believe this man is acceptable
to the prosecution. Thank you

- Mr. Drummond?
- No questions. Not acceptable.

Does Mr. Drummond
refuse this man a place on the jury

Simply because he believes in the Bible?

If you find an evolutionist in this town,
you can refuse him.

I object to counsel for defense rejecting

a worthy citizen without so much as
asking him a question.

All right, Mr. Brady.
I'll ask him a question.

- How are you?
- kinda hot.

So am I. Excused.

You are excused from jury duty, Mr. Dunlap.
You may step down.

And I object to the note of levity

counsel for the defense is introducing in this procedure.

The bench agrees with you in spirit, Colonel Brady.

Really? Well, I object to this damn Colonel business.

Apparently, I'm not aware
with the military record of Mr. Brady.

Well, He was made honorary colonel
in our state militia

... the day he arrived in Hillsboro

That title immediately prejudices my client�s case.

I mean the conscious of some images of the prosecutor
astride a white horse,

That dozens full regalia of a militia colonel,

with all the forces of right and
righteousness some massed behind him.

Well, We certainly want to give you
a fair hearing in this courtroom.

We don't want anything prejudicial
to your client.

What do you suggest we do, Counsel?

Break him.
Make him a Private.

I have no serious objection
to the honorary title of Private Brady.

Your Honor!

You know our mayor
Mr. Drummond.

He has a suggestion to make.

By authority of, uh...

I'm sure the governor won't haven't any objection.

I hereby appoint you, Mr. Drummond.

I named it a temporary
honorary colonel in the state militia.

Well! what can I say?

It's not every day that one attains the exalted rank of...

temporary honorary colonel

Thank you, Sir..

They ought to get him a uniform of tar and feathers that

...to teach him some respect.

Colonel Brady.
Colonel Drummond.

you will examine the next venireman.

George Sillers, come to the stand.

State your name and occupation.

George Sillers.
I work at the feed store.

Be seated, George.

Tell me, sir.
would you call yourself a religious man?

Well, I guess I�m as religious as the next man.

In Hillsboro, sir, that means a great deal.

- Mr. Sillers,
do you have any children?
- Not as I know of.

If you had a son, or a daughter�

what would you think if that sweet child came home from school, one day

and told you that a godless teacher...

Objection!

We're supposed
to be selecting jury men.

The prosecution is denouncing my client.

... before the trial has even started

Objection sustained.

Mr. Sillers, Do you have any opinions
with regard to the defendant

... that might prejudice you on his behalf?

Cates?
I don't hardly know him.

He came in and bought big moss once
and paid the bill on time.

Mr. Sillers impresses me as an honest,
God-fearing man.

I accept him.

Thank you, Colonel Brady.
Colonel Drummond?

Mr. Sillers...

Now you said that you are
a religious man.

Tell me do you work at it very hard?

Well, I'm pretty busy down at the feed store.

So my wife tends the religion for both of us.

Oh, I see. You take care of this life
and she takes care of the next one?

That is objected to
as immaterial and argumentative.

Objection sustained.

while your wife is tending to the religion...

Did you ever happen to bump into
a fella named Charles Darwin?

Not till recent.

Well, from what you've heard about this Mr. Darwin, you're thinking of someone your wife wants to have him over for Sunday dinner?

Your honor, Matt Brady's opponent from Chicago is cluttering

up the issue with hypothetical questions.

I have already established that Mr. Sillers

is not working very hard at religion.

Now, for your sake, I'm trying to find that he is not working hard at evolution.

I'm just working at the feed store.

Mr. Sillers, do you think you can render
an impartial decision�

- �on this trial?
- Out of order, the prosecutor has already accepted this man.

- All I want is a fair trial.
- So do I.

Unless the state of mind of the members
of the jury

conforms to the laws and the pattern of society

Oh, conform, conform!

What do you wanna do? running entire the jury through
a meat grinder

... so that they all come out the same?

Take a box seat, Mr. Sillers.

- Your Honor
- Gentlemen

Gentlemen, you're both out of order.

The bench rules
that the jury has been selected.

Due to the excessive heat, court is adjourned

Until tomorrow morning at 10 O'clock

Reverend Brown asked you to read it.

One moment, one moment!

The Reverend Brown asked me to read an announcement.

There will be a prayer meeting tonight

in the square to pray for justice and guidance.

All are invited.

I object to
that commercial announcement.

Commercial announcement?

Yes. Reverend Brown's product.

Why don't you announce a meeting for evolution?

- I have no knowledge of such a meeting.
- Well, that's understandable.

Your Honor, It's bad enough that everybody coming in this courtroom

has to walk underneath a banner

that says: "Read your Bible"

I want that banner taken down.

Or else another one put up, just as big,

with letters just as big,
that says "Read Your Darwin".

- That's absurd.
- Certainly.

Order! Order!

Order, gentlemen!
Friends, order!

Now, we want the learned counsel from the North to receive

every fairness and consideration in this trial.

We must not forget that he is our guest.

Guest, hell! I'm a lawyer in a courtroom!

- Then behave like a lawyer
- You're both out of order.

Stop using this courtroom
as a sounding board for your obscene ideas,

- trying to dirty the minds of our young.
- Order! Order!

You both are out of order. The court is adjourned.

My conduct as a lawyer is not being questioned in this court...

... Least of all by you.

But your language is.

Look. I don't swear just for the hell of it.

Language is a poor enough form of communication.

We need every damn word we've got.

There are damn few words
that anybody understands.

- We'll fix you, Bert Cates...atheist
- All right, folks. That�s about enough.

All right folks. Let's clear the courtroom, now.
Everybody go home

Just remember, the Baltimore Herald
is with you, right up to the lynching.

Bert, get to call the whole thing off now.
Right now.

Excuse me. Who are you, young lady?

This is Rachel Brown. We're engaged.

Reverend Brown's daughter.

Don't you see what's happening?

They're using you as a weapon
against your own people.

What you think or believe isn't the point anymore.

You're helping something bad.

It's not quite that simple, young lady.

You know good or bad, black or white, night or day.

Do you know that at the top of the world,
twilight is six months long?

Bert and I don't live on top of the world.
We live in Hillsboro,

and when the sun goes down, it's dark.

Then why do you come here
to make it different?

I didn't come to make Hillsboro different.

I came here to fight his right to be different.

That's the point. What do you say, boy?

I don't know what the point is anymore.

I tried to teach their kids.

I tried to open the minds of their kids...their kids.

I tried to give them the knowledge they could use...

And they're using it as a stranglehold on me.

You're learning, Cates.

Disillusionment is what little heroes are made of.

- you're off to a good start.
- And how will I finish?

Dead? With a paper medal on my chest?

"Bert Cates: world's biggest chump. He died fighting."

Let's face it: to him I'm a headline...

And to you, I'm a cause.

And to yourself?
You chose to get into this.

Not for his headline or for my cause,

or maybe even for their kids.
Every saint is self-employed.

You did it for yourself. Because you found
something you believed in.

I didn't believe it would happen this way.

These people look at me as if I'm a murderer.

Well, you are, in a way.

You turn down one of their little fairy-tale

And they'll come down on you the wrath of God,
Brady and the state legislature every day time.

Anyway, it's up to you, Cates.

I'll change your plea... and we�ll just figure about the whole business.

On one condition.

You tell me you really think the law is right and you are wrong.

I'll pack my grip, go back to Chicago,

where it's a cool hundred in the shade.

Bert, I've gone to my father's church

every Sunday first as long as I can remember.

This is where I live.
This is where my children will be born.

But what kind of life could we have?
if I gave up now?

Your father's kind?
Hallelujah and ignorance here we come?

I can't live that way

Sorry, Bert. I gotta take you back now.

You ever been in love, Hornbeck?

Only with the sound of my own words,
thank God.

Thank you, O Lord, dear Father,

From whom all blessings flow, for thy bounty.
Make us worthy of thy grace. Amen.

Go ahead, Henry. I said grace for you too.

Do you seriously believe that, Mr. Brady...?

Got any idea how long the trial will last?

A month, maybe longer, depends on call witnesses.

There isn't a single state in this union, where the evolutionists are in the majority.

-...prized to his speech
- Oh, well, I congratulate!

Then they'll let me finish the soup.

Mr. Brady, How do you think about that one unfortunate comment he said ...

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Sarah! Sarah, why don't you sit with me?

- He's gonna be busy for a while.
- Oh, lovely.

Thank you, Mr. Drummond.

- Do you want something?
- Oh, No, thank you

- Now whatever happened to that hat with blue feather?
- Blue feather?

You used to wear it to all the conventions and it was much too becoming.

Oh, Henry! whatever happened
to that skinny black tie you used to wear?

Not very attractive. Like an old shoelace.

Yeah, It's back in the shoe.

Now how are you?

- How are you, Sarah?
- A little greyer

- And you?
- A little grimmer.

I don't believe it. I watched you in court today.

You seemed to enjoy it as much as ever.

That's Matt. He brings out the worst in me.

We've missed you, Henry.

You don't make many good friends
in a lifetime.

I never dreamed
our ideas would separate us.

I have been to their cities

and I have seen the altars upon which they
sacrifice the futures of their children

to the gods of science.

- And what are their rewards?
- He still has a loud voice.

Confusion and self-destruction.

New ways to kill each other in wars.

I tell you the ways of scientism
is the way of darkness.

He still has something to say.

You know, looking back, I don't think
Matt would have made a great president.

But I would have voted for him for king
If I know you're gonna be as a queen.

And what would you've been?

Your Majesty's loyal opposition.

That's all for today, gentlemen.

Henry, you must understand there's nothing personal in all this.

Of course, Sarah.

It's almost time, dear.

Henry, I do hope you�re going to Reverend Brown�s meeting.

It might give you some light.

Yes, Henry. Do come along,
the air will do you good.

Hearken to the Word.

The Word tells us
the world was created in six days.

In 5 days,
he created the earth and the stars

And the continents and the seas and all the creatures in it.

The beasts and the fishes.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

On the morning of the sixth day
the Lord rose,

and his eye was dark
and a scowl lay across his face.

Why? Why was the Lord troubled?

Why? Tell us!

looked around by the Lord

And all his handiwork, bowed down before him,

and he said "it is not good.
It is not finished!"

"I shall make me a man!"

- And the Lord created man.
- What happened to silent prayer?

- Do we believe?
- Yes.

- Do we believe the Word?
- Yes.

- Do we believe�
- Yes.

- the truth of the Word?
- Yes.

- ...Do we curse the man
- Yes.

- who denies the Word?
- Yes.

Do we call down hellfire on the man

- �who has sinned against the Word?
- Yes. Yes.

O Lord of the tempest and the thunder,
O Lord of the rages and the wrath ,

We prayed at that will make us a sign.

strike down this sinner
as thou did thine...

- ...enemies of old
in the days of the Pharaohs.
- Yes.

Let him know the terror of thy sword.

For all eternity...

...let his soul,
writhe in anguish and damnation!

No! No, Pa! Don't pray to destroy Bert!

Go away

Lord, Lord. we call this same curse

for those who ask grace for this sinner,

though they be blood of my blood
and flesh of my flesh!

Reverend Brown!

I know that it's the great zeal of your faith
which makes you utter this prayer,

sometimes it is possible to be overzealous,

to destroy that which you hope to save

so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Remember the wisdom of Solomon

in the Book of Proverbs.

He that troubleth his own house

"shall inherit the wind."

The Bible also tells us
that God forgives his children.

And we, as God children,

should forgive each other.

My good friends, return to your homes.
Go home.

May the blessings of the Lord be with you.

If I've sinned...

... I've been punished

We'll take you home, my dear.

- I can't go home. He hates me.
- He doesn't hate you.

But he damned me.

My own father damned me to hell.

No man has the power to damn.

But he's always done it.

He did it to Bert
and the little Stebbins boy.

The Stebbins boy?

That's how the whole thing started.

That was why Bert left the church.

The Stebbins boy
was just an innocent child.

God has no wrath for the innocent,
my dear.

That's what Bert said.

If I can only explain it clearly,
then you'd understand Mr. Brady...

I�ll help you in any way possible I can.

Come on. Let's go home.

- Come on, dear.
- Thank you.

- Hello, Henry.
- Sarah.

- I'll be right up, dear.
- All right, Matt.

- Good night, Henry.
- Good night, Sarah.

You're up late.

It's too hot to sleep.

No use kidding ourselves, Henry.

We're not the men we used to be.

Well by the size of that meal I saw tonight,
I think you hadn't changed in 40 years.

Funny how two people can start

from the same point and drift apart.

I think it's the life process.

We used to be a mutuality of understanding
and admiration between us, Henry.

Tell me, my old friend,

Why did you move so far away from me?

Well, all motion is relative, Matt.

Maybe it's you
who have moved away by standing still.

If progress means abandoning God,

abandoning the faith of our fathers...

I saw an example of that faith, tonight.

It's a pretty deadly instrument, if you ask me.

What you saw was a reflection of the violence and hate.

in the world around them, Henry

Your world.

But they were driven to it
because their faith was challenged.

These are simple people, poor people.

They work hard. they need something to believe�
in something beautiful.

They're seeking something
more perfect than what they have.

Window-shopping for heaven.

Why do you want to take it away
from them, Henry?

It's all they have.

It's like a golden chalice of hope.

Like my golden Dancer.

- Your what?
- Golden Dancer.

She was in the wig side windowed

of the general store in Wakeman, Ohio.

I used to stand in street and look at her

and say: "If I could just have the Golden Dancer

I'd have everything in this world that I've wanted."

A Golden Dancer.

I was about seven years old
and a very good judge of rocking horses.

a bright red mane, blue eyes, gold all over
with purple spots.

Oh boy, and when the sun hit her stirrups

she was a dazzling sight to see.

But she was a week's wages
to my father.

So there was always

a plate glass window between me and Golden Dancer.

Until one morning,
Couldn't have been Christmas.

It must have been my birthday. Anyway,
I woke up and there at the foot of my bed

Was Golden Dancer.

My mother had skimped on the groceries and

my father had worked nights for a month.

Well, I jumped into the saddle
and I started to rock.

And it broke,

In two wood was rotten.
The whole thing was put together
with spit and sealing wax.

All shine and no substance.

So Matt, whenever I find anything nice and shiny ...

... in bright seemingly perfect,

... painted all in gold and with purple spots,

I look behind the paint,

If I find a lie
I show it up for what it really is.

You say you're giving the people hope.

I say you're stealing hope from the people.

And as long as the prerequisite for your shining paradise

is ignorance, and all the ignorance brings.

poverty, bigotry and hate.

I say to hell with that.

Now , Howard. Tell them what else
Mr. Cates said to you in the classroom.

Well, he said the first, earth was too hot

for any life.

And then it cooled down a mite

and cells and things began to live.

Cells?

Little bugs-like�

in the water.

And after that, the little bugs got to be bigger bugs,

sprouted legs and crawled up on the land.

And how long did this take,
according to Mr. Cates?

A couple of million years. Maybe longer.

This way gentlemen.

Then comes the fishes, and reptiles
and mammals.

Man's a mammal.

Along with the dogs
and the cattle in the fields.

- Did he say that?
- Yes, sir.

Howard, how did man come out
of this slimy mess of bugs,

and serpents according to your professor?

Man has sort of evaluated
from the Old World monkeys.

Did you hear that, my friends?

Old World monkeys!

According to Mr. Cates,

you and I aren't
even descended from good American monkeys.

Howard, listen carefully.

In all this talk of bugs and evolution,

of slime and ooze,

did Mr. Cates ever make
any reference to God?

Not as I remember.

And the miracle he achieved in 7 days,

as described in the beautiful
Book of Genesis?

No, Sir.

- Ladies and gentlemen...
- Objection.

I ask the court please to advise the learned counsel

that he is not in a Chautauqua tent

You're supposed to submitting the evidence to the jury.

And there are no ladies on the jury.

Your Honor,
I have no intention of making a speech.

There is no need.

I'm sure that everyone on the jury,

everyone within the sound
of this boy's voice,

has been moved by his tragic confusion.

He's been taught
that he wriggled up like an animal

from the filth and muck below.

I tell you these Bible-haters,

these evolutionists are brewers of poison.

And the legislature of this sovereign state

has had the wisdom to demand
that the pedlars of poison,

Be in bottles or in books,

clearly label the product
they attempt to sell.

If this law is not upheld,

this boy will find himself one of a generation

shorn of its faith
by the teachings of godless science.

But if the full penalty of the law
is meted out to Bertram Cates,

the faithful all over the world,
who are watching us

and listening to our every word,

will rise up
and call this courtroom blessed.

- Amen.
- Amen.

Boy, I am glad
the colonel Brady didn't make a speech.

Now, Howard. I heard you say
that the world used to be pretty hot.

That's what Mr. Cates said.

Do you think it could be hotter than it is right now?

It must have been.
Mr. Cates read it to us from a book.

Is this the book?
Charles Darwin's Origins of Species?

- Yes, Sir.
- Now, Howard.

Do you think
there was anything wrong with that?

- Well, I don't know.
- Objection.

Your Honor, The defense is asking a High schoolboy,

hand on an opinion on a question of morality.

I am trying to establish that Howard
or Colonel Brady

or Charles Darwin or anyone in this courtroom, or you, sir

has the right to think.

Mr. Drummond,
the right to think is not on trial here.

With all respect to the bench, sir,

I say that the right to think
is very much on trial.

It is fearfully in danger
in the proceedings of this court.

A man is on trial.

A thinking man.

And he's been threatened with fines and imprisonment.

For choosing to speak what he thinks.

Mr. Drummond,
will you please rephrase your question?

All right, Howard,
Let's put it this way.

Well, all this fuss and feathers about evolution,

do you think it hurt you?

- Sir?
- Harm you in any way?

I mean, you still feel reasonably fit, you know

What Mr. Cates told you affectionately

your ball game or did it injure your pitching arm?

- No, sir. I'm a lefty.
- Oh, a southpaw, huh?

- And still, honor your father and your mother?
- Sure.

And you've murdered anybody since breakfast?

Objection.
That is an absurd piece of jactitation.

A what?

Would you rephrase your objection, Mr. Davenport?

Jactitation: a false declaration.

In this instance as to the murder
of known or unknown persons.

Objection sustained.

Ask him if his faith in the Holy Scriptures
has been shattered.

When I need your valuable help, Colonel Brady,

you can rest assured
I shall humbly ask for it.

Any time, Colonel Drummond. Any time.

He's the only man I know
who can strut sitting down.

Did you believe
Everything that Mr. Cates told you?

- I'm not sure. I gotta think over.
- Good for you.

- Is your father's a farmer, isn't he?
- Yes, sir.

- Got a tractor?
- Brand-new one.

You figure it a tractor is a sinful

because it's not mentioned in the Bible?

You know,
Moses never made a phone call.

Does that make the telephone
an instrument of the devil?

I never thought of it that way.

Neither did anybody else,
according to Brady.

Your Honor, the defense makes
the same old error of all godless men.

They confuse material things

With the great spiritual realities of the Revealed Word.

Why do you bewilder this boy?

Does right have no meaning to you, sir?

At the risk of prejudicing
the case of my client,

I must tell you that right has absolutely no meaning to me whatsoever.

Truth has meaning,

as a direction, Gentlemen

But one of the peculiar imbecilities of our time

is the grid of morality
we have placed on human behavior,

so that every act of man

must be measured against an arbitrary
latitude of right

and longitude of wrong.
in exact minutes, seconds and degrees

Do you understand what I'm talking about, Howard?

No, sir.

Well, maybe someday you will. You're excused, son.

This boy may not understand, but I do.

I've seen what you can do to a jury.

Twist and tangle them.

No one's forgotten the Endicott publishing case

Where you made the jury
believe the obscenity was in their own mind.

It was immoral what you did to the jury.

Tricking them, judgment by confusion.

I'm not trying to get away with anything, counsel.

All I wanna do is to prevent the clock-stoppers

from dumping a load of medieval garbage
into the United States Constitution.

This is not a federal court.

But dammit, you've got to stop them somewhere!

Your Honor, It's obvious what he's trying to do.

He's trying to make us forget
the lawbreaker.

and put the law on trial

Well, we have the answer for you, sir.
in our next witness.

Would you please call Miss. Rachel Brown to the stand.

- Did you know about this?
- Miss. Rachel Brown

Will Miss. Rachel Brown come to witness stand?

My dear, just repeat some of the things you told me last night.

- Rachel, what did you tell him?
- Take it easy, take it easy.

Rise right hand , Rachel.

Do you swear to tell the truth,

the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

- Yes.
- Be seated.

Miss Brown, you're an old friend
of the defendant, Bertram Cates?

Yes. We're engaged to be married.

Do you attend the same church?

Yes. We did.

- Do you now?
- What?

- Attend the same church?
- No.

- Did Mr. Cates leave the church?
- No. Not really.

- Not the spirit of it.
- But the body of it. Correct?

Mr. Cates left the church that
you and he once attended together?

- Yes.
- Why?

Because of what happened to the Stebbins boy.

The Stebbins boy.

Would you tell us about that, please?

It was two summers ago.

The little Stebbins boy was just 13 years old.

He was one of Bert's students

He used to come over there,
look through Bert's microscope.

Bert said the boy had a quick mind

and he might even be a scientist
when he grew up.

Yes?

One day he went swimming in the river with the other boys

He got a cramp... and drowned.

Go on.

At the funeral, Pa preached that

Tommy didn't die in a state of grace

because his father wouldn't allow him
to be baptized.

Why don't you tell him what your father really said?

- That Tommy's soul was damned
- Order!

- that would burn in hellfire
- Order!

- Religion's supposed to comfort people ...
- Order!

...Isn't it?

It's not supposed to frighten them to death.

We will have order, please.

Don't you see? He thought it wasn't fair

that a little child couldn't go to heaven.
It wasn't God he abandoned,
only the church.

It is true then, because of
what happened to the Stebbins boy,

Bertram Cates left the church

You've said nothing wrong.

We're merely beginning to get some insight

into the experiences that
sometimes can lead a young man astray.

I object. Whether my client went astray

is a matter of interpretation.

- Take that out for the record.
- Objection sustained.

The jury is directed
to disregard the remarks of counsel.

Miss. Brown, Will you tell the jury some more of

Mr. Cates' opinions on the subject of religion?

Objection!
Objection!

Hearsay testimony is not admissible.

The court has no objection to this line
of questioning.

Proceed, Colonel Brady.

Just repeat in your own word some of the conversations

you had with the defendant.

- Rachel, you can't.
- Order!

The things I said you
were questions

questions you asked your own heart.

If you say them out loud,
you'll make them sound like answers.

- Order! Order!
- They'll crucify me.

You won't hurt him, Rachel.
This is for his good. Speak up.

Mr. Brady, please I confided in you...

Rachel, we are here to serve the truth

I...

I can't remember.

May I remember Miss. Brown
you are testifying under oath.

And it's unlawful
to withhold pertinent information.

Tell to the court your innermost feeling

when Bertram Cates said to you:
"God did not create man,

Man created God."

Bert didn't say that.

Please, he was just bitter
because of Stebbins boy.

He said man created a vengeful God

out of his own bigotry,

... and a devil from his own hell.

And when he was wondering what was on the other side of the moon,

Did he ever once mention the possibility of heaven,
did he mention it?

Or did he say that there was nothing except
a world of stars

... and moons and galaxies and universe of...
Tell us...

What did he say about
the holy state of matrimony?

Did he compare it to the breeding of animals?

- Come on!
- Objection! Objection!

Order!

Don't you want the good people...

...of this town to understand what happened to his mind...

so they bring him back to his senses system,

- Come on! Tell it! Tell it!
- Order!

- Tell it all!
- Order!

- Matt!
- Order! Order!

Under the circumstances,

I believe the witness should be excused.

And will the defense have
no chance the challenge the statements

that the prosecutor has put into the mouth of the witness?

Let her go.

- You've got to.
- I've got to what?

Let you go to jail?

Stop tying my hands.

Let her go or I'll change my plea to guilty.

No questions.

For the time being,
the witness is excused.

Does the prosecution
wish to call any further witnesses?

Not at the present time, Your Honor.
The prosecution rests.

We shall proceed with the case
for the defense.

Colonel Drummond.

Yes. The defense wishes to call Dr. Amos D. Keller,

Head of the Department of Zoology at the University of Chicago.

- Objection.
- On what grounds?

I failed to see what relevance the testimony

of a zoology professor
could have in this trial.

It has every relevance.
My client is on trial for teaching evolution.

Any testimony relating to the alleged
infringement of the law

must be admitted.

Irrelevant, immaterial, inadmissible.

Why? If Bertram Cates was accused of murder

would it be irrelevant to call for expert witnesses
to examine the weapon?

Your Honor, the defense
wishes to place Dr. Keller on the stand

so that he can explain
to the gentlemen of the jury

... just exactly what the evolutionary theory is.

They don�t need to have explained.

The people of this state have made it very clear

that they do not want zoological hogwash
slobbered all over the schoolrooms.

And I refuse to allow
these agnostic scientists

to use this courtroom as a

platform from which they can shout
their heresies into the headlines.

Colonel Drummond...

the court rules
that zoology is irrelevant to the case.

Very well.

I call Dr. Allen Page,
Deacon of the Congregational Church,

and professor of geology and archaeology at Oberlin College.

- Objection.
- Objection sustained.

In one breath, this court denies the existence

of zoology, geology and archaeology?

We do not deny
the existence of these sciences,

but they do not relate to this point of law.

I call Walter Aaronson,
philosopher, anthropologist, author,

and one of the most brilliant minds
in the world today.

Any objection, Mr. Brady?

- Objection.
- All right.

Your Honor, the defense has brought to Hillsboro...

at great inconvenience and great expense

... five noted scientists
And their testimony is essential.

It would show that what Bert Cates spoke,

one quietly spring morning
in Hillsboro high school

is no crime.

It's incontrovertible as geometry

to any enlightened community of minds.

In this community, Colonel Drummond, and in this sovereign state,

exactly the opposite is the case.

The language of the law is clear.

We do not need experts to question
the validity of a law

already on the books.

In that case, let's stop wasting time...

And build a gallows to hang him from.

That remark, sir is an insult to this entire community.

This entire community is an insult to the civilized world.

We will not stand that act!

Your Honor, I request permission
to withdraw from this case.

Order!

Colonel Drummond,
You can't quit now.

Why not? You were ready to quit 5 minutes ago.

Mr. Drummond, Mr. Drummond.
What reasons can you possibly have?

There's hundred of them right there,
and if that's not enough,

I have one more

I think my client
has already been found guilty.

Is Mr. Drummond saying
that this honest expression of an emotion

will any way effect the court's

impartial administration of the law?

I say you cannot administer impartially of a wicked law.

You can only punish, only destroy.

And I warn you a wicked law, like cholera,

will destroy everyone it touches.

Mr. Drummond.

Can't you understand

that if you can take something like evolution
and make it a crime to teach it in public schools,

Then tomorrow you can make it a crime
to teach it in private schools,

and next year you can
make it a crime to read about it?

And then maybe you can start
banning books and newspapers.

And soon you may set
Catholic against Protestant,

...Protestant against Protestant,

and try to foist your own brand of religion
upon the mind of man.

If you can do one, you can do the other,

because ignorance and fanaticism is forever busy.

It needs feeding.

And soon, Your Honor, with
banners waving and drums beating,

We are marching backward
to the glorious 16th century,

when bigots condemned Galileo

who daring to bring intelligence and
enlightenment to the human mind.

I hope counsel does not mean to imply
that this court is bigoted.

Your Honor has the right to hope.

I have the right to do more than that.

You have the power to do more than that.

And I exercise that power.

Colonel Drummond, I order you to show cause
tomorrow morning at ten o'clock

why you should not
be held in contempt of this court.

And in the meanwhile, I order
that you be held in custody of the bailiff.

Bail is fixed at $2,000.

- 2000 Dollars?
why don't you make it four?
- I do make it four

Your Honor, my paper will post the bond.

Can you prove legal authorization

to make such a commitment for your employer?

I'll wire my paper immediately.

Fine. until then, Colonel Drummond

can always avail himself of our municipal accommodation.

Your Honor, sir.
I'll put up my farm for Mr. Drummond.

It ought to be worth that much.

We have no way of ascertaining
the value of your farm, sir.

The law demands
that bond be posted in cash.

Your Honor, Your Honor, my bank will honor
the offer on the security of his farm.

He has considerably more equity
in it than that.

Very well.

You can make arrangements
with the court clerk.

- Excuse me, who are you?
- My name is John Stebbins.

Court is adjourned and will reconvene
tomorrow morning at 10 A.M.

There'll be a hot time in the old town, tonight.

Yeah!

All right!

Hooligans of the world unite!

come on in.

You've got nothing to burn
but your intellectuals.

These are the boobs that make our laws.

It's the democratic process.

Looks like you're going out
in a blaze of glory, Counsel.

Hey! Why don't you shut up?

And after a while Your Honor,

you'll be setting man against man,

And creed against creed, Unquote.

Oh, wake up Henry, Darwin was wrong...

Man's still an ape

and his creed's still a totem pole.

The moment he achieved the upright position, he looked at the stars and thought they were something to eat.

And he couldn't reach them,

He decided they were groceries belong to a bigger animal
and that's how Jehovah was born.

Yeah, I wish I had your worm's-eye view of history.

It would make things a lot easier.

Oh, no. Not for you..

You'd still be trying
to make sense out of

what is laughingly referred to as the human race.

Take your blinders off.

I tell you the future is already obsolete.

You think man still has a noble destiny.

I tell you he's already started
on his backward march

to the salt and stupid sea
from which he came.

What about men like Bert Cates?

Cates?
A monkey who tried to fly.

And he climbed to the top of the totem pole
and then he jumped.

And there was nobody there
to catch him.

Not even you.

Not me? Now what do you want me to do?

You saw what they did to my witnesses.

- What you need's a drink.
- What I need is a miracle.

Yeah.

Here's a whole bagful.

Courtesy of Matthew Harrison Brady.

Your Honor.
I feel I owe you an apology, sir.

Wherever remarks

that were made led to
the contempt citation,

I regret.

I know, Your Honor was trying to be fair.

I apologize for those remarks
that were made in the heat of the moment.

My friends, and Colonel Drummond,

the man that I believe came
into the world

to save mankind from sin

taught that to forgive is godly.

I believe in those principles.

I accept Colonel Drummond's apology.

And I withdraw the contempt citation.

Oh, thank you, Your honor.

Your Honor, I should also like to add
that in the spirit of forgiveness

I have no animosity
toward learned counsel from Chicago.

He has well known
to ride hobbyhorses before.

Perhaps he'll return home
having learned a lesson.

And we here commend him to learn in his heart

the words of him who said:
"if you thirst, come unto me

and I will give you life."

Perhaps there is much to learn from
the learning counsel for the prosecution.

Your Honor, there's one other remark
I made yesterday, that I'd like to withdraw.

If the court please , I would like to withdraw my withdrawal

and continue as counsel for Bertram Cates.

I see no reason why Colonel Drummond
should not be permitted to continue

as counsel for defense

Proceed, Colonel Drummond.

Since the court
has ruled out testimony

on science or the Darwinian theory,
would the court be willing to admit

expert testimony, regarding a book known as the Holy Bible?

Colonel Brady, Do you have any objections?

If counsel can advance the case of the defendant
by using the Holy Scriptures,

prosecution'll take no exception.

Good. I would like to call to the stand
one of the world's foremost experts

on the Bible and its teachings.

Mathew Harrison Brady.

Your Honor, this is preposterous!

Brother, let us pray.

Well, it's highly unorthodox.
I've never known of an instance

Where the defense to call
the prosecuting attorney as a witness.

Your Honor,
this entire trial is unorthodox.

But if the interests of truth and justice
will be served that,

I will take the stand.

The court will support you if you wish
to decline to testify as a witness against your own case.

Your Honor,
I shall not testify against anything.

But I would speak out, as I've whole my life,

on behalf of the living truth
of the Holy Scriptures.

Mr. Meeker, you'd better swear in the witness, please.

It won't be necessary to swear him in.

I can make affirmation.

I have no objection to swearing to God.

I trust you will tell the truth.

Am I correct sir, in calling on you
as an authority on the Bible?

I don't think it's not boastful to say that I have studied
the Bible,

as much as any layman,

and I have tried to live
according to its precepts.

Bully for you.

And I suppose you can quote me chapter

and verse in through
the King James Version. Can't you?

There are many portions of the Holy Bible
that I have committed to memory.

And I don't suppose you've memorized many passages from The Origin Of The Species.

I have not the least interested in
the pagan hypotheses of that book.

- Oh yeah! So you've never read it?
- I never will.

Then where in perdition that you got the gall
to whoop up this holy war

against something you don't know about?

How can you be so cocksure
that the body of scientific knowledge

Systematized in Charles Darwin's writings

That is in any way irreconcilable
with the spirit of the Book of Genesis?

Would you state that question again, please?

All right, let's put it this way.

On page... I think 19.. Yes, Charles Darwin says...

I object to this, Your Honor.
Colonel Brady has been called
as an authority on the Bible.

Now the gentleman from Chicago is using
this opportunity

Ti read into the record scientific testimony which you,
Your Honor previously ruled as irrelevant.

If he's examining Colonel Brady on the Bible,

Then let him stick to the Bible,
the Holy Bible and only the Bible.

You will confine your questions
to the Bible.

All right. Forget it.

We'll play in your ballpark, Colonel.

Let's get this straight.

This is the book
which you are an expert on?

That is correct.

Now tell me, Do you feel that every word

written in
this book should be taken literally?

Everything in the Bible should be
accepted exactly as it is given there.

I have this part here
where the whale swallows Jonah.

Do you think it actually happened?

Bible does not say a whale.
It says a big fish.

Does it? Matter of fact, it says "a great fish".

As you said about it.

How do you feel about it?

I believe in a God who can make a whale
and a man,

and make them both do as he pleases.

God bless you, Matthew Harrison Brady.

We are with you, Colonel Brady.

Order! Order!

He's right.

Colonel, now I recollect a story in which Joshua,

made the sun stand still.

As an expert, do you tell me
that's as true as the Jonah business?

That's a pretty neat trick.

I do not question or scoff at the miracles
of the Lord as do ye of little faith.

Well have you pondered what would naturally happen
to the earth if the sun stood still?

You can testify to that
if I get you on the stand.

If, as they say, the sun stood still,

they must have some kind of notion
that the sun moved around the earth.

Do you think so, or don't you believe
the earth moves around the sun?

I have faith in the Bible.

And you sure have not much faith in the solar system.

The sun stopped.

Good. Because if what you say actually happened,

if Joshua stopped that sun in the sky,

then the earth stopped spinning on its axis.

The Continents toppled over one another,

mountains flew into space,

and the earth shriveled to a cinder,
and crashed into the sun.

How come they missed that bit of news?

You missed it because it didn't happen.

But it had to happen, Colonel,
according to natural law.

Or don't you believe in natural law?

Would you ban Copernicus from
the classroom along with Charles Darwin?

Or pass a law that erases
all scientific development since Joshua?

Revelations � period!

Natural law was born in the mind
of the heavenly Father.

He can change it, cancel it, do it as he pleases.

It constantly amazes me that you apostles
of science,

for all your supposed wisdom fail to grasp that simple fact.

Can I have the Bible?

All right, Colonel.

Genesis, 4:16.

"And Cain went out
from the presence of the Lord

and dwelt in the Land of Nod,
on the east of Eden."

"And Cain knew his wife."

Now, where the hell did she come from?

- Who?
- Mrs. Cain

Cain's wife.

If in the beginning there were just Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel ...

where did this extra woman spring from?
Ever figure that out?

No, sir.
I leave the agnostics to hunt for her.

- Never bothered you?
- Never bothered me.

- Never bothered to find out?
- No.

Just thought maybe they pulled off
another miracle in the next county, huh?

The Bible satisfies me. It is enough.

You know, it frightens me to think
of the state of learning in the world

if everybody had your driving curiosity.

Now, this book goes into a lot of "begats".

"And Arphaxad begat Salah;
and Salah begat Eber."

so on and so on.
Are these pretty important folks?

They are the generations
of the holy men and women of the Bible.

How did they go about all this begatting?

What do you mean?

Well, I mean did they begat then,
about the same way as people
get themselves begat today?

I believe the process is about the same.

I don't think that your scientists
have improved it any.

In other words, these folks
were conceived and brought forth

by the normal biological function
known as sex?

What do you think of sex, Colonel?

In what spirit is this question asked?

Well, I'm certainly not asking you what
you think of sex as a husband or a father

or a presidential candidate.

You're here as an expert on the Bible.

What's the biblical evaluation of sex?

It is considered original sin.

Those holy people were all begat through original sin?

All that sinning
make them any less holy?

Your Honor, what does it have to
do with the State versus Bertram Cates?

Colonel Drummond, the court must be satisfied...

this line of questioning has some bearing on the case.

You've ruled out all my witnesses.

You must allow me to examine the one witness you left me in my own way, Your Honor.

Your Honor, I am willing to sit here

and endure Mr. Drummond's sneering
and this disrespect because he's pleading

the case of prosecution by his contempt for all that is holy.

I object, I object, I object!

On what grounds?

Is it possible that there is something holy
to the celebrated agnostic?

Oh, Yes.
The individual human mind.

In a child's power
to master the multiplication table

there is more sanctity
than in all your shouted amens,

holy holies and hosannas.

An idea is a greater monument
than a cathedral.

And the advance of man's knowledge

is more than a miracle
than any sticks turned to snakes

or the parting of the waters.

and we'll stop the march of progress

because Mr. Brady
frightens us with a fable?

Gentlemen, progress has never been
a bargain.

You have to pay for it.

Sometimes I think there's a man
behind a counter

who says: "All right, I give you a telephone

but you lose the privacy

and the charm of distance."

"Madam, you may vote, but at a price."

"You lose your right to retreat behind
the powder puff or your petticoat."

"Mister, you may conquer the air,

but the birds will lose their wonder

and the clouds will smell of gasoline."

Darwin led us to a hilltop,

from where we could look back
and see the way from which we came.

But for at view at insight and knowledge,

we must abandon our faith
in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.

We must not abandon faith!
Faith is the most important thing!

Then why did God plague us
with the power to think?

Mr. Brady, why do you deny

the one faculty that puts man
above all creatures on earth?

The power of his brain to reason.

What other merit we've got?

The elephant is larger.
The horse is swifter and stronger.

The butterfly is more beautiful.
The mosquito is more prolific.

Even the common sponge is more durable.

Or does a sponge think?

I don't know. I am a man, not a sponge.

Do you think a sponge thinks?

If the Lord wishes a sponge to think,
it thinks.

Does a man has
the same privilege as a sponge?

Of course.

This man wishes to be accorded
the same privilege as a sponge.

He wishes to think.

But your client is wrong.
He is deluded. He's lost his way.

It is sad we don't all gifted with your positive

... knowledge of right and wrong Mr. Brady.

Thank you.

A rock.

How old do you think this rock is?

I am more interested in the rock of ages
than I am in the age of rocks.

Dr. Page of Oberlin College ...

tells me this rock is over ten million years old.

Well, well, Mr. Drummond,
You finally managed to sneak in
some of that scientific testimony after all.

Now look at this, Mr. Brady.

These are the fossil remains of a
Prehistoric marine creature

Lived here millions of years ago

when these mountains
were still submerged under water.

I know. The Bible gives
a fine account of the Flood.

But your professor's
mixed up on his dates.

That rock is not more
than 6,000 years old.

How do you know?

I know because a fine biblical scholar,

Bishop Ussher, has determined for us
the exact date and hour of the Creation.

It occurred in the year 4004 BC.

Well, that's Bishop Ussher's opinion.

It's not an opinion. It's a little fact,

Thank you.

which the good bishop arrived them by the careful computation

of the ages of the prophets
as set down in the Old Testament.

In fact, he determined that the Lord began
the Creation

on 23rd October, 4004 BC,

...at 9 A.M.

Is that Eastern Standard Time?

Or Rocky Mountain Time?

It wasn't Daylight Saving Time, was it?

Because the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day.

That is correct.

That first day, what do you think it was?
24 hours long?

The Bible says it was a day.

Yeah, but there was no sun.
May how could you tell?

The Bible says it was a day.

Yeah, but a literal day, a normal day, a 24-hour day?

- I don't know.
- What do you think?

I do not think
about things I do not think about.

Do you ever think about things
that you do think about?

Isn't it possible that the first day could have been 25 hours long?

There's no way to measure it,
no way to tell.

Could it have been 25 hours?

It is possible.

Oh, so you interpret that the first day
recorded in the Book of Genesis,

Could be of indeterminate length?

What I wish to state is that the day referred
to is not necessarily, 24 hour day.

It could have been 25,
It could have been 30 hours.

It could have been a month, or a year...

...or a hundred years...

...or ten million years.

I protest! This is not only
irrelevant, immaterial, it is illegal!

I demand to know the purpose
of Mr. Drummond's examination.

What is he trying to do here?

I'll tell you what he tries to do.

He's trying to destroy everybody's belief
in the Bible and in God.

The Bible is a book.

It's a good book but it is not the only book.

It the revealed word of the Almighty God,
spake to the men who wrote the Bible.

How do you know
God didn't spake to Charles Darwin?

Because God tells me
to oppose the evil teachings of that man.

- God speaks to you?
- Yes.

- He tells you what is right and wrong?
- Yes.

- And you act accordingly?
- Yes.

Then you, Matthew Harrison Brady,
through oratory or legislature or whatever,

pass along the word of God to the rest of the world!

Well, meet the prophet from Nebraska!

I... Please!

Is this really the way of things?

The god tells you what is good

to be against Brady is to be against God.

No! No! Every man is a free agent.

Then what is Bertram Cates
doing in the Hillsboro jail?

Order!

What if Mr. Cates
had enough influence and lung powered

to railroad through the state legislature
a law that only Darwin can be taught in school?

That's ridiculous..
There is only one great truth in the world.

Of course, the truth according to Brady!

God speaks to Brady,
Brady tells the world!

Brady, Brady, Brady Almighty!

The Lord is my strength!

What if a lesser human being,
a Cates or a Darwin,

Where to have the audacity to think
that God might whisper to him,

that an un-Brady thought
might be holy.

Must a man go to jail because he has
odds with the self-appointed prophet?

Let's extend the testaments.
We'll have a Book of Brady,

We'll set you in niggle between Numbers and Deuteronomy.

My friends, Your Honor, Ladies and Gentlemen...

The witness is excused!

you know what I stand for,
what I believe in.

I believe in the truth of the Book
of Genesis,�

Your Honor, the witness is excused!

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth,

- The witness is excused!
- First Samuel, Second Samuel,

... - First Kings, Second Kings,
- You're excused, Colonel Brady.

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel...

Court is adjourned
until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.

Well done, Henry. Well done

Matt. Let's go home.

- Home?
- Back to the hotel.

You were always a good man.

That's why I loved most you,

even from the very beginning.

People said you made mistakes,
wrong decisions.

You could have been president
three times over.

Sarah.

I never doubted you because your decisions were honest and unselfish.

You never compromised your principles just to win.

Sarah.

a victory here would be a monument

to God that would last 1,000 years.

Matt, they turned away from you
this afternoon.

Oh, they didn't understand.

They have to understand.

I'll make them understand.

My speech. Where's my speech?

I've got to find my speech.

I'll make them listen.
They have to listen.

They will listen to me.

Oh, Here it is.

That�s all here, on this paper.

Sarah, it isn't just this case.

It's God himself who's on trial.

They'll listen to you, dear.

Oh, Mother...

They laughed at me.

Shh, baby.

I can't stand it when they laugh at me.

It's all right, baby.

It's all right.

Come in

Oh, Mr. mayor.

I've been on the phone with the lieutenant governor all morning, Merle.

Newspapers haven't been very kind to us.

The boys at the Capitol think it wouldn't
do any harm if you just let the whole business, kinda simmer down.

Just a minute, mayor

I have an obligation to the law.

Of course you have, Merle,

You've got to follow the law,
regardless of the affect we both have
re-election in November.

No, sir. I can't be a factor.

Hello, Miss. Brown.

I left my father, Bert.

I messed things up
pretty badly for us.

It's not your fault, Rach.
Brady can twist things...

It wasn't him. I should have done this
in the beginning. I should...

You don't have to say anything.

Glad you're here.
Come sit with us.

Oh, Welcome back to our side.

Hello, hello!
Testing! Testing

1, 2, 3, 4, Testing! Testing

1, 2, 3, 4! Hello, hello!

- Hello. What is that?
- An annunciator.

Will you broadcast?

Oh, We have a direct wire to WGN, Chicago.

The whole country will hear this.

When the jury gets back in,
We'll announce the verdict.

My God, You're really gonna break some walls with damn the radio.

You're...you're not supposed to say "God" on the radio.

Why the hell not?

You're not supposed to say "hell" here.

This is going to be
a barren source of amusement.

Looks like they�ve reached a verdict, son.

The jury is coming back in.

What do you think?
Can you tell from their faces?

No.

Everybody rise.

Hear ye, hear ye!

Court will reconvene in the case of
the State versus Bertram Cates.

Be seated!

Ladies and Gentlemen. This is Harry Esterbrook,

...speaking for the vast audience across the America, from the courthouse in Hillsboro...

..where the jury just has returned to courtroom...

to render its verdict in the famous Hillsboro Monkey Trial case.

The judge has taken the bench and the next few minutes,

we shall learn whether Bertram Cates
will be found innocent or guilty.

Gentlemen of the jury,
have you reached a decision?

Yes, sir... Uh, Your Honor, we have.

The jury's decision is unanimous.
Bertram Cates is found

...guilty as charged

Quiet, please.

- Order! The court is still in session.
- Operator

The prisoner will rise
to hear the sentence of this court.

Mr. Cates, do you wish to make any statement
before sentence is passed?

Your Honor, I'm not a public speaker.

I don't have the eloquence of some of
the people you've heard in the last few days.

I was just a schoolteacher.

But I feel like...I've been convicted
of violating an unjust law.

And I will continue in the future,
to oppose this law in any way I can.

Bertram Cates, You've been found guilty of violating public act

volume 37, statute number 31427, as charged.

This violation is punishable
by fine and/or imprisonment.

But, since there has been
no previous violation of this statute,

there's no precedent
to guide the bench passing sentence.

The court deems it proper
to sentence Bertram Cates

to pay a fine of...

one hundred dollars.

Order! Order!

Did Your Honor say
one hundred dollars?

That is correct.

That seems to conclude business of this trial.

Your Honor, the prosecution takes exception
where the issues are so titanic

or more drastic punishment.

I object.

Must be made it out to make an example of the transgressor.

to show the world...

The amount of this fine
is no interest to me.

Bertram Cates has no intention whatsoever of paying this or any other fine.

He wouldn�t pay a single dollar.

We will appeal this case
to the supreme court of the state.

Will this court please grant us 30 days
to prepare the appeal?

Granted. Court fixes bond at $200.

I believe this concludes the business
of this trial.

Therefore I declare this court is adjourn

Your Honor! If the court pleases,

I should like to read into the record
a few short remarks that I have prepared..

Mr. Brady can read all every remarks that he wishes
in a Chautauqua tent,

or political campaign,

but our business
in Hillsboro is concluded.

The defense asks that the court be adjourned.

I have a few remarks.

we are all anxious
to hear them, sir.

But Colonel Drummond's
point of procedure is well taken.

I'm sure everyone here will wish to remain

After the court's adjourn to hear your address.

I hereby declare
this court is adjourned sine die.

My friends!

Lemonade! Cold lemonade.

Your attention, please!

Fellow citizens

and friends of the unseen audience,

That's disconnected sir., It's off.

from the hallowed hills of sacred Sinai

in the days of remote antiquity

came the law which has been
our bulwark and our shield.

That�s all over left is the shouting.

Age upon age, men have looked to
the law as they would to the mountains
whence cometh our strength.

here, here in this courtroom, we have then vindicated!

We have then vindicated!

We went...

From the hallowed hills
... of sacred Sinai...

Matt!

Mr. Chief Justice ...

... citizens of the United States ...

in my term in the White house,

...I pledged to carry out my programs to improvement...

... of the common people, of this country.

As your new president ...

I say, what I have said all my life ...

Matt!

Matt!

Oh, dear God in heaven!

Matt!

Matt!

See you next time.

Henry, he's dead.

Matt Brady had a beautiful soul.

Yes, Sarah.

He was ill.

I tried again to stop him,
but he couldn't.

I'm telling you this, because I don't want you
to think you had anything to do with it.

Oh no! I know, I know. I�m so sorry.

Yes.

I can't imagine this world without Matthew Harrison Brady.

- Mr. Drummond?
- Huh?

- I don�t understand if we win or loose
- You won.

- But, the jury found...
- The jury, what jury?

That 12 men. Millions of people will say that you've won.

They�ll read the paper tonight and see you�ve smashed a bad law...

...you made a joke about it

Yeah, but they'll laugh on me.
No job

Apparently they won�t let me back in the boarding house in this town.

You can pick up from one cause to another, but ...

... we have to live our lives here.

Is that what you believe Ms. Brown?

I believe in Bert.

You a lucky man, Bert.

- Mr. Drummond, thanks.
- For this worst, you're welcome.

Look at them.

He loves she, she loves he and now they'll beget a family.

It's a merry grand, counsel.

The life cycle of the gnat,

louse, and the maggot and the human.

What did he die of, they say?

He died of a busted belly.

There was much greatness in the man.

Can I quote you in the obituary?

You can write any damn thing please.

How do you write an obituary
for a man who's been dead 30 years?

What did he say to reverend Brown?
That's it. He delivered his own obituary.

Where did you put that?

Ah, here it is.
His book.

It was Proverbs, wasn't it?

"He that troubleth his own house
shall inherit the wind."

"And the fool
shall be a servant to the wise in heart."

Well, Colonel Drummond, we're growing
an odd crop of agnostics this year.

You know, You're really getting damned sick in tired of you, Hornbeck.

Why?

Because you never pushed a noun against a verb
except to blow up something.

That's a typical lawyer's trick,
accusing the accuser.

What am I accused of?

Contempt of conscience.
Sentimentality in the first degree.

Because I don�t want to erase entire lifetime?

No. Because you know what I thought of him

and I know what you thought,
so let's leave the lamentations

to the illiterate.

What is this? Be Kind To Bigots Week?

Why should we weep for him?
Because he's dead?

He cried enough for himself

The national tear duct
from Weeping Water, Nebraska.

He flooded the nation
like a one-man Mississippi.

You know what he was,
a Bible-beating bunko artist.

A giant once lived in that body, but got lost.

Because Matt Brady was looking for God...

too high up and too far away.

Are you hypocrite? You fraud!

The atheist who believes in God.

You're just as religious as he was.

Don't you understand the
meaning of what happened here today?

What happened here today has no meaning.

You have no meaning.

Your whole life has no meaning.

You're like a ghost
pointing an empty sleeve,

and smirking at everything that
people feel, need and struggle for.

I Pity you.

You Pity me?

Isn't there something...touches you, warms you?

Every man has a dream.
What do you dream about?

What do you need?

You don't need anything, do you?

Love? An idea maybe just to hold on to?

You poor slob, you have nothing, you believe in nothing.

You're all alone.

And when you go to your grave there will be no body

to pull the grass over your head.

Nobody to mourn you,

Nobody to give one damn.

You will be what you have always been, alone.

You're wrong, Henry.
You'll be there.

You're the type.

Who else would defend
my right to be lonely?

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