"Inherit the Wind" on TCM at 7 CST.

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Classic.
Spencer Tracey as the Clarence Darrow (Henry Drummond in the movie) character.
Frederic March as William Jennings Bryan/Matthew Harrison Brady.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's play Inherit the Wind (1955), fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials. It portrays Darrow and Bryan as the characters named Henry Drummond and Matthew Brady.[73] The playwrights state in a note at the opening of the play that it is not meant to be a historical account,[74] and there are numerous instances where events were substantially altered or invented.[75][76]

Despite the disclaimer in the play's preface, that states, while the trial was its "genesis", it is "not history",[77] Lawrence and Lee later said that it was written in response to McCarthyism and was chiefly about intellectual freedom.[78][79] and the fact that it deviates from the actual events of the Scopes Trial in many ways, the play has largely been accepted as history by the public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial#Cartoons

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1. OH GEE!

Thanks. Westminster too!

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2. Westminster???

[elleng]

3. Yes:

https://www.foxsportsgo.com/program/160583/141st-westminster-kennel-club-dog-show-day-1

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2692605-2017-westminster-dog-show-tv-coverage-live-stream-schedule-and-expectations

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5. Um...what does that have to do with 'Inherit the Wind'?

They're on the same night?
Oh, OK.

[elleng]

6. Right, and I can't get Westminster

because it's supposed to be available by streaming and I can't get it, so I'm watching Inherit the Wind now. THANKS!

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4. E.K. Hornbeck was based on American journalist H.L. Mencken

The character of E.K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) was based on American journalist H.L. Mencken, who had notably covered the John Thomas Scopes trial.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

[elleng]

7. 'God speaks to Brady,

and Brady tells the world!'

SO timely!

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8. Great film. Irony in casting: Frederic March was a blazing liberal IRL...

To the extent that in 1949, he was targeted for blacklisting by the House Un-American Activities Committee because of his "leftist" politics.

Throughout his life, he and his wife were supporters of the Democratic Party.

[Aristus]

9. I played Bertram Cates (the John Scopes character) in a local production of 'ITW' back in 1995.

Both of the actors playing Brady and Drummond (the Darrow and Bryan characters) in our production were incredible. It was a great experience.