In the end, despite his badgering of Brady, Drummond is sympathetic to his beliefs. Matthew Brady is so rattled by Drummond's questioning that he collapses under the strain. With that concession, Drummond is able to assert Cates has every right to hold a differing opinion, including about the Book of Genesis and to deny him that right is unjust. Eventually, the great Biblical Literalist is forced to concede that certain Biblical accounts cannot be taken literally, but must be interpreted intellectually. Drummond eventually calls the prosecutor to the stand and prods him to explain various biblical stories such as Jonah and the whale. Throughout the movie, the sarcastic reporter mocks the bible toting hostile townsfolk.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that Cates's girlfriend is the daughter of the town's bombastic preacher (Claude Akins).
The two are old adversaries and clash throughout the film. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady (played by Fredric March ) is a former presidential candidate and famous evangelist. Hornbeck (played by Gene Kelly), arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) to defend Cates. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Based on the famous Scopes Monkey trial of 1925 a Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution.
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