Inherit the Wind 1960

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

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Tolerably gripping in its old-fashioned way, thanks chiefly to old pro performances from Tracy and March as the rival lawyers and ideologists. Read more

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