Inheriting Mencken

[johnnycharco]

Gene Kelly had the best lines in this film and he delivered them all magnificently.Thanks for posting.

[Exceptional46]

Gene Kelly is a legend. He was a great dancer, actor, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer. Truly one of the greatest, and might I add extremely good looking!

[Lamporre]

Gene Kelly should have been nominated for an Oscar. The man took the role of Hornbeck and did a fantastic job. He took a role that could easily have simply been snide and witty, but he made him a human character, especially considering his last long scene with Drummond. It's a great performance by Mr. Kelly.

[altosax1st]

Mencken is awesome!

[sukneh]

Ah, ML, thou shouldst be living this hour! you'd rejoice in a target rich environement of Christianists, Femnists,, Multicults, Afrocentrists, other 'ists' I can't recollect, Pomos, and all scoundrels posing as patriots.PJ O'Rourke tries but only comes close. You would still have for your enjoyment the 'gaudy, coruscating show'.

[fomastephanovitch]

The sad thing is that journalists nowadays are just as wet as schoolteachers.

[GuyaRicanMC]

HL Mencken = God

[altosax1st]

@GuyaRicanMC His wit alone should be enough to qualify him to be a deity

[cyberneticchaos]

Science! That is the truth!

[mastgrr]

Amazing movie...deals with the subject of creationism and mccarthyism simultaneously.

[saletious]

Mccarthyism?

[atheistasylum]

We need more H L Menckens and Gene Kellys.

[Gecka12]

it is impossible to capture Mencken

[nicmart]

And this doesn't begin to accomplish it.

[BloodhoundUnchained]

The film is named Inherit the Wind, after the play of the same name. It concerns the Scopes Monkey Trial, with Clarance Darrow defending a teacher against William Jennings Bryant. E.K. Hornbeck, in this scene, represents the real-life journalist H.L. Mencken.

[seraphlaim]

Is this from a film called Inheriting Mencken? Please click reply, I'd love to find this somehow.

[firexsound]

this is from a movie called Inherit the Wind and HL Mencken is portrayed by a character called EK Hornbeck (my favorite out of all the characters in the book)

[ekhornbeck127]

i think gene kelley played me well

[videoclog]

Thanks for the upload. I don't think you could produce a movie with such a theme nowadays. Bigotry and political correctness are everywere. I admire Gene Kelly for accepting this role. He was a great man.

[YouTalker]

Thanks for posting this... two great actors, Dick York and Gene Kelly, in one scene!

[mu2freighter]

I actually acted the part of Hornbeck in a summer camp production of the play...years before I discovered the wonderfully irascible Mencken himself!

Folks like Mencken, Ambrose Bierce, and other brilliant cynics are always a relief to return to after any contamination by the predigested pablum/prolefeed/Newspeak that inundates our lives and others around the world.

Henry Louis Mencken, bless ya!

[NGS712]

mu2: I agree.

Cynics are more fun than optimists. ;)

[JohanStarDragon]

Quite right. 

Just like how a nihilist is easier to get along wtih than a religious person.

[NGS712]

Johan: Personally . . . I don't like either that much. ;)