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    Popular culture. Tracy was portrayed by the actor Steve Brodie in a 1954 episode of the syndicated television series, Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis. [14] Bruce Dern plays Tracy in the 1982 film Harry Tracy, Desperado.

  2. Harry Tracy, Desperado is a 1982 Canadian drama Western film starring Bruce Dern and Helen Shaver. It was directed by William A. Graham, and filmed on-location in Historical Barkerville, British Columbia.

  3. Harry Tracy: The Last of the Wild Bunch: Directed by William A. Graham. With Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael C. Gwynne, Gordon Lightfoot. A charming but unscrupulous train robber courts capture and hanging when he falls in love with the daughter of a judge.

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    • William A. Graham
    • 1983-01
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    In the 1920s, in the town of Hillsboro in an unknown state, a female voice sings "Old-time Religion" as schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for violating state law by conducting a lesson on Charles Darwin's Descent of Man. The event makes headlines around the world. Matthew Brady, statesman, three-time presidential candidate and Biblical schola...

    Background

    Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, which took place between July 10 and July 21, 1925, and resulted in John T. Scopes's conviction for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law. The characters of Matthew Harrison Brady, Henry Drummond, Bertram Cates and E. K. Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Scopes, and H. L. Mencken, respec...

    Adaptation changes

    The film includes events from the actual Scopes trial, such as Darrow's citation for contempt of court when he denounced the court by stating that it was prejudiced and his subsequent act of contritionand his request that the charge be dropped. Both events occurred the next day.

    Historical inaccuracies

    In the play, Brady is a more extreme Christian fundamentalist than Bryan was. According to historian Ronald Numbers, author of The Creationists, Bryan should be considered a day-age creationist. Because the judge ruled that scientific evidence was inadmissible, a ruling which the movie depicts, Darrow called Bryan as his only witness and then he attempted to humiliate Bryan by asking him to interpret Scripture. When Darrow, in his closing remarks, called upon the jury to find Scopes guilty so...

    The film had its world premiere at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival on June 25, 1960. Its U.S. premiere was in Dayton, Tennessee on July 21, 1960.[where?]

    Inherit the Wind at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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    Inherit the Wind at AllMovie
  4. As the last survivor of the Wild Bunch, Tracy pulls off a series of profitable robberies before making his way west to Portland, Oregon, in search of Catherine Tuttle -- a judge's daughter who has captured his heart. But on the way, Tracy is betrayed, arrested, and imprisoned.

  5. Dec 27, 2021 · Harry Tracy (1982) Mark Franklin December 27, 2021 1980s. Bruce Dern is Harry Tracy, the last remaining member of the Wild Bunch, on the run from the law and especially Marshal Morrie Nathan. He’s a charmer who manages to turn the head of Catherine Tuttle (Helen Shaver), daughter of a late judge.

  6. The Best Movies Starring Harry Tracy Rank This Chart. Best | Worst. Detailed | List | Gallery. per page 1. Music Hath Harms 1929, 21 min. Walter Graham • Starring: ...

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