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Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | 2000 | Jack
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries | 2000 | George C.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television | 2000 | Daniel
Television Movie | 2000
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | 1999 | Jack
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie | 1999 | Beau
According to Piper Laurie, both Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott were in poor health during filming. However, she claimed that while Lemmon frequently forgot his lines, Scott despite being very weak and tired never forgot his.
George C. Scott, cast as Brady, had three years earlier played Drummond onstage.
Final film of George C. Scott.
The original Broadway production of "Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee opened at the National Theater on 4/21/1955, ran for 806 performances and won two acting Tony Awards in 1956. The opening-night cast included Paul Muni as Drummond (Melvyn Douglas later took over the role when Muni developed a cataract), Ed Begley as Brady and Tony Randall as Hornbeck. There have been two Broadway revivals; in 1996 with Charles Durning and George C. Scott and in 2007 with Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer.
One of two courtroom TV dramas featuring a duel of ideas between Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott, the other being 12 Angry Men (1997). Both are remakes of classic theatrical films.
"Henry Drummond: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart."
