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Originally Posted by skippy_ps
1960 Film.I did a little reading about the film and found that the actual story of the Scopes Monkey Trial differs substantially from the film. For example, William Jennings Bryan doesn't die at the end of the trial (he dies 5 days later). Dramatic license, I suppose.
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That's why they didn't use any of the real names for the Dick York character (Scopes), the Frederick March character (Bryan), the Spencer Tracy character (Clarence Darrow) or the Gene Kelly character (H.L. Mencken). In literature stories like that, truth masquerading as fiction, are called Roman a clef.
John