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Courtroom Drama | Politician
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Best Feature Film Suitable for Young People | 1960 | Stanley
Best Actor | 1960 | Fredric
Top Ten Films | 1960
Best Film Editing | 1961
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 1961 | Spencer
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1961 | Harold Jacob
Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1961
Top Male Dramatic Performance | 1961 | Spencer
1960 | Stanley
Budget 2,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,000,000 USD
The Hillsboro County Courthouse is the same building as the Hill Valley Courthouse in Back to the Future (1985).
To heighten the tension of Spencer Tracy's final summation to the jury, the scene was filmed in a single take.
Was the first in-flight movie ever shown on Trans World Airlines.
Stanley Kramer was advised against casting Fredric March and Spencer Tracy in the lead roles as it was felt young audiences would not want to see veteran stars.
Fredric March and Florence Eldridge, the actors who play Matthew and Sarah Brady, were married in real life from 1927 until his death in 1975.
"Matthew Harrison Brady: We must not abandon faith! Faith is the most important thing! Henry Drummond: Then why did God plague us with the capacity to think? Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man that raises him above the other creatures of the earth, the power of his brain to reason? What other merit have we? The elephant is larger, the horse is swifter and stronger, the butterfly is far more beautiful, the mosquito is more prolific. Even the simple sponge is more durable. But does a sponge think? Matthew Harrison Brady: I don't know. I'm a man, not a sponge! Henry Drummond: But do you think a sponge thinks? Matthew Harrison Brady: If the Lord wishes a sponge to think, it thinks! Henry Drummond: Do you think a man should have the same privilege as a sponge? Matthew Harrison Brady: Of course! Henry Drummond: [Gesturing towards the defendant, Bertram Cates] Then this man wishes to have the same privilege of a sponge, he wishes to think!"
"Henry Drummond: 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 damn few words that anybody understands."
