by David Krell | Jan 3, 2014 | David Krell
Based on the eponymous play, Inherit the Wind showcases the Scopes Monkey Trial. This 1960 film stars Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as the fictional counterparts to Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, respectively. In the legal thriller Jagged Edge (1986),...
by David Krell | Jan 2, 2014 | David Krell
Lawyers are prominent in films, representing every strata of society from rape victims to Santa Claus. They are the bastions of justice, their cinematic appearances reinforcing their prevention of order descending into chaos. In Miracle on 34th Street (1947), an...