Inherit the Wind Page #13

You'll remove that now, please.

The prisoner will rise

to hear the sentence of this court.

Bert, do you wish to make any statement

before sentence is passed

Your honor, I'm not a public speaker.

I do not have the eloquence

as some of the...

men you've heard in the last few days.

I'm just a schoolteacher.

Not anymore,

You ain't!

I was a schoolteacher.

I feel that...

I've been convicted of

violating an unjust law.

I will continue in the future,

as I have in the past,

to oppose this law in any way I can.

Bertram Cates,

this court has found you guilty

of violating public act volume 37,

statute 31428 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.

court deems it proper

to sentence Bertram Cates

to pay a fine of...

Ahem.

Ah... ah, did ah...

Did your honor say $100

That is correct.

That seems to conclude

the business of the trial.

But, your honor, the prosecution

takes exception.

Why, the issues are so titanic

the court must mete out more

drastic punishment...

I object.

to make an example of this transgressor,

to show the world...

Just a minute,

just a minute.

The amount of the fine is of

no concern to me,

because Bertram Cates has

no intention of paying

this or any other fine.

If it were one single dollar,

he would not pay it.

We are going to appeal this decision

to the state supreme court.

Will the court grant us 30 days

in which to prepare the appeal

Granted.

Court fixes bond at $200.

I believe that concludes

the business of this trial

Therefore, I declare this court adjourned.

Your honor, with the court's permission,

I should like to read into the record

a few short remarks which I have prepared.

I object to that.

Mr. Brady is free to read any remarks,

long, short, or otherwise,

in a Chautauqua tent or

a political campaign,

but our business in Hillsboro is completed.

The defense moves

that the court be adjourned.

But I-I have a few remarks...

and we are all anxious to hear them, sir

But Col. Drummond's point of

procedure is well taken.

I'm sure everyone here will wish

to remain after the court is adjourned

To hear your address.

I hereby declare this court is adjourned,

Sine die.

My friends, my dear friends

Your attention, please.

Fellow citizens and friends

of the unseen audience,

from the hallowed hills of sacred sinai

in the days of remote

antiquity came the law...

and here, here in this courtroom...

here in this courtroom...

Oh, no, no.

As they would look to the mountains..

from time remembered,

wherever man's body has known

the last of hunger..

lost in darkness and despair, and here...

here in this courtroom,

living still, in spite of dunge on,

fire and sword

Eskimo pies, 5 cents.

Eskimo pies!

Eskimo pies, sweet as honey.

Here's where you bring your money.

Eskimo pies.

...is a law.

from the hallowed hills of sacred sinai

in the days of remote antiquity

came the law,

which has been our bulwark and our shield

and here, here in this courtroom,

we have seen vindicated

the faith of our fathers.

living still in spite of dungeon,

fire and sword.

Oh, how our hearts be high with joy,

whenever we hear the glorious word

Faith of our fathers, holy faith,

we will be true to thee...

till death...

Matt!

Matt!

Oh, dear god. Matt!

Get back. Let him have some air.

Lord, pass us a miracle

and save our holy prophet!

Get a doctor.

I cannot imagine the world

without Matthew Harrison Brady.

Ah, get me the Baltimore Herald, please.

What did he die of did they say

He died of a busted belly.

There was much greatness in the man.

can I quote you in the obituary

Write anything you damn...

write anything you please.

How do you write an obituary for a man

who's been dead 30 years

Operator

Say, what did he say to the minister

You know, that fits.

He delivered his own obituary.

Ah, ah, where'd you put that, uh...

Ah, here it is.

His book.

That, ah, was proverbs, wasn't it

"He that troubleth his own house"

shall inherit the wind.

"and the fool shall be servant

to the wise in heart. "

Well...

Well, Col. Drummond,

we're growing an odd crop

of agnostics this year.

You know, Hornbeck

I'm getting damned sick of you.

Why

You never pushed a noun against a verb

except to blow up something.

You know, that's a typical lawyer's trick...

accusing the accuser.

Of what am I accused

Contempt of conscience.

sentimentality in the first degree.

Why, because I refuse to erase

a man's 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.

Oh, no.

Besides, he cried enough for himself

during his lifetime.

The national tearduct

from Weeping Water, Nebraska.

he flooded the nation

like a one-man Mississippi.

You know what he was,

that bible-beating bunco artist.

a giant once lived in that body,

but Matt Brady got lost

because he looked for a god too high up

and too far away.

Wh-why, you hypocrite.

Y- you fraud.

The atheist who believes in God.

Aah, you're just as religious as he was.

Everything is grist for your mill, isn't it

Well, go ahead, grind it up...

Brady's past, Cates' future.

My god, don't you understand

the meaning of what happened here today

What happened here today has no meaning.

You have no meaning.

You're like a ghost pointing an empty sleeve

and smirking at everything

that people feel or want or struggle for.

I pity you.

You pity me

Isn't there anything...

what touches you what warms you

Every man has a dream.

what do you dream about

what... what do you need

you don't need anything, do you

people... love... an idea, just to cling to

you poor slob.

you're all alone.

When you go to your grave,

there won't be anybody

to pull the grass up over your head,

nobody to mourn you, nobody to give a damn.

You're all alone.

You're wrong, Henry.

You'll be there.

You're the type.

Who else would defend my right to be lonely

...of the coming of the lord

He is trampling out the vintage

Where the grapes of wrath are stored

He hath loosed the fateful lightning

of his terrible swift sword

His truth is marching on

Glory! Glory!

Hallelujah

Glory! Glory!

Hallelujah

Glory! Glory!

Hallelujah

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