Inherit The Wind

Spencer Tracy as a fictionalized Clarence Darrow, Fredric March as a fictionalized William Jennings Bryan in Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind
Turner Classic Movies' Fredric March tribute ends tonight with the presentation of six movies: Inherit the Wind (1960), There Goes My Heart (1938), Seven Days in May (1964), The Young Doctors (1961), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), and Anthony Adverse (1936).
Of those, I've seen three:
Stanley Kramer's Inherit the Wind, a fictionalized account of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial — creationism vs. evolution — is one of Kramer's Movies with a Message. Unlike the tame Guess Who's Coming to Dinner or the dull The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind actually delivers its message in a dramatically persuasive manner.
Helping things out are Oscar nominee Spencer Tracy in one of his rare unselfconsciously low-key performances as Clarence Darrow ("Henry Drummond" in the film) and a heavily madeup Fredric March in a wildly theatrical but curiously affecting star turn as William Jennings Bryan ("Matthew Harrison Brady").
What's most disturbing about Inherit the Wind as a sociopolitical allegory is that it remains as relevant today as — if not even more so than — half a century ago. (They should release it on Blu-ray with the tagline "The Movie Tea Party Republicans Don't Want You to See!")
Mervyn LeRoy's period drama Anthony Adverse only comes to life when either Oscar winner Gale Sondergaard or Claude Rains is on screen, but John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May, a thriller about the "unthinkable" — a military coup in the United States — remains gripping. Fredric March shines as the US president, and so does Ava Gardner in a cameo.