Inherit the Wind Page #5

Order in the court

Rev. Brown has asked me to announce

"Pray for justice and guidance. "

All are invited.

Your honor, I object to that

commercial announcement.

commercial announcement

of the Rev. brown's product.

Why don't you announce

that there's going to be

an evolution meeting

I have no knowledge of such a meeting.

That's quite understandable.

It isn't enough

that everybody who comes into this courtroom

has to pass under a sign which says

read your bible.

I want that sign taken down, your honor.

No! No!

Or else I want another sign put up

just as big with just as big letters

which says read your Darwin.

That's what I mean about this man.

order!

Your honor, your honor, we want

the learned counsel from the North

to get 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.

Stop using this courtroom

as a platform for your obscene ideas

trying to dirty the minds of our

young people here.

You are both out of order.

Court is adjourned.

My conduct in this courtroom

is not under question,

and certainly not by you!

Well, your language is!

I don't swear just for the hell of it!

Language is a poor enough means

of communication.

I think we should use

all the words we've got.

Besides, there are damned

few words that anybody understands!

Henry Drummond, atheist!

You! what are you going

to say in your paper now

"He that sups with the devil must

have a long spoon. "

Let's go.

Let's go folks, clear the floor.

We'll fix you, Cates.

we'll run you out of town.

Well, anyway,

the Baltimore Herald is with you...

right up to the lynching.

Bert...

Bert, you've got to call the whole

thing off now.

who are you, young lady

This is Rachel Brown. We're engaged.

Brown Rev. Brown's daughter

Don't you see what's happening, Bert

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.

No, young lady,

it's not as simple as all that...

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

do you know that at the top of the world

the twilight is 6 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.

And why do you have to come here

to make it different

I didn't come here to make

Hillsboro different.

I came here to defend his right

to be different.

And that's the point.

How about it, boy

I don't know what the point is anymore.

I tried to open their kids'

minds... their kids.

I tried to give them knowledge

they could use.

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

You're learning, Cates.

Disillusionment is what little heroes

are made of

Where do 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.

To you, I'm a cause.

And to yourself

All right, let's face it.

Now, you chose to get into this

by yourself.

You didn't get into it because

of his headline

or because of my cause,

or maybe even because of their kids.

You got in to it because of yourself...

Because of something you believed in

for yourself.

I didn't believe it would happen this way.

It can get worse.

Those people are in a lean and hungry mood.

They look at me as if I was a murderer.

In a way, you are.

You know, you... you kill

one of their fairy-tale notions,

and they'll bring down

the wrath of god, Brady and the state

legislature on you every time.

You make a joke out of everything.

Young lady

I know what Bert is going through.

It's the loneliest

feeling in the world.

It's like walking down an empty street

listening to your own footsteps.

But all you have to do is to knock

on any door

and say, "if you'll 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.

Now, it's up to you, Cates.

You just say the word,

and we'll change the plea...

th-that is, of course, if you honestly

believe that the law is right

and you're wrong.

Now, if that's the case, just tell me,

and I'll pack my bag and go back to Chicago

where it's a nice, cool 100

in the shade.

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

every sunday as long as I can remember.

This is where I live.

This is where my children will be born.

What kind of a life could we have

Well, what kind of a life could

we have if I gave up now

your father's kind

Hallelujah, and ignorance, here we come

Rach, what goes on in this town

is not necessarily

the christian religion everyplace else.

Rach, I can't live the way you want me to

You're the one who's got to decide.

It's his church or our house.

You can't live in both.

sorry, Bert.

I have to take you back now.

You ever been in love, Hornbeck

Only with the sound of my own words,

thank God.

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

confusion and self-destruction.

New ways to kill each other in wars

I tell you, gentlemen, the way of scientism

is the way of darkness

Now, Mr. Brady, do you, ah, believe

seriously

that the majority of the American people

hold with your views

not just the views of Matthew

Harrison Brady, Mr. Hornbeck.

There isn't one state in the union

where the evolutionists are in the majority.

It'll be the people themselves of our

great land who will speak.

Mr. Brady, how do you account

for the unfortunate comment

that your crusade has aroused

the attacks upon me stem from

a vociferous minority

which happens to control the press.

I hope you gentlemen...

madam...

will not be influenced

by this same negative bias.

Pardon me.

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.

God may be a Matter of indifference

to the evolutionists,

and the life beyond hold no charms

for them...

Sarah.

But the mass of mankind

will continue to worship.

Here, sit with me.

Thank you.

He'll be busy for a while.

Well, where is it, where is it

The hat with the little blue feather

Blue feather

You used to wear it to all the conventions.

it was much too becoming.

Oh, Henry!

And whatever happened

to that skinny black tie you used to wear

Not very attractive... like an old shoelace.

It's back in the shoe.

how are you, Sarah

how are you

a little grayer, Henry. And you

A little grimmer.

I don't believe it.

I watched you in court today.

You seemed to be enjoying 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.

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