Inherit the Wind
 

I watched this DVD last night:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/

It is based on the Scopes Monkey Trial. Fascinating movie. I kept thinking that they must have taking some real liberties telling the story. But I did some research after watching the movie and was amazed at how much of the dialog and how many of the details of the trial were true to history. That was a fascinating event.

With all of the recent discussion here on evolution, you may find this interesting. Excellent script and acting.

This is a great movie. I loved it.

I happened across this movie late one night on TCM and couldn't stop watching it. It was a great movie.

Which begs the question: Has Spencer Tracey ever been in a lousy film?

This is not meant as a smart-ass comment, but didn't you have to watch this in HS? I remember watching it in like 10th grade English. We didn't watch the film for the creationism/evolution debate, but as a discussion on allegory – the movie/play having something to do with McCarthyism (I think). Maybe this was just a commie-California public education thing.

This also brings up another book I had to read in HS – The Jungle. The in-class discussions were all about muckraking, the plight of immigrants, unions and the creation of the FDA, etc. Sinclair was hailed as the great muckraker. Then I do some out-of-class research and find Sinclair never cared about creating safe foods for consumers – he wanted his novel to be an indictment of capitalism and marketplace. He later ran for congress and governor of CA as socialist.

Sorry, I digress...The reason I was bringing up The Jungle is because Inherit seems to be about creationism/evolution, but was intended to be a criticism of anti-communism.

Not sure, but I think BYU71 had to attend the trial during HS. :)

This is when I first saw it, too.

Other movies I remember from HS:

12 Angry Men
Lord of the Flies
Citizen Cane
Red Asphalt 1 (Auto Safety class in 9th grade with parent permission slip required)

Moving thread into hijack mode...

When I was in 8th grade I was able to take hunters safety as a PE class. I didn't hunt, but liked the fact you didn't have to dress out. I only remember this now, as you bring up Red Asphalt, because we had to watch some queer movie where a kid gets shot. I can't imagine you can take hunters safety in a Jr High PE class anymore, well not in CA anyway.

re-hijack!

Did anyone else have to watch driver-safety videos at zone conference? There's nothing like seeing someone describe in gory detail his companion dying in his arms after running a stop sign to prepare for spiritual edification. When I got to the office I refused to allow any of them to be shown.

What about Faces of Death? I remember spending the night at a friend's house and his older brother had a video copy of it. We watched it and thought we were being pretty rebellious. The only scenes I remember were some jungle people killing and roasting a monkey, a dude getting electrocuted, and some napalm death. I think someone jumped off a roof, also.

No, but nice "I worked in the office" bomb, Mr travel secretary.

*rimshot*

PS How many people did you baptize?