根据1925年真实案件“猴子审判”(也称“斯科普斯案”)改编。一名美国高中生物老师因在课堂教授进化论,被州政府起诉。案件轰动整个美国,教会势力前来小镇声援,教授、科学家等另一阵线也来支持,加上媒体的持续报道,令小镇顿时热闹起来。 政治家马修·哈里森·布拉迪(弗雷德里克·马奇饰演)代表控方出庭,辩方律师则由著名律师亨利·德鲁蒙德(斯宾塞·屈塞饰演)代表。审讯期间,两人针锋相对,渐渐成为一场关于进化论与创世纪、科学与宗教的世纪大辩论。 片名取自圣经箴言书11:29 “扰害己家的,必承受清风”。。With an involved, detailed mystery and an elegant adversary played by Gale Sondergaard, this is one of the most entertaining features in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The story gets a little far-fetched, but it is quite interesting. It is loaded with plot devices pulled from several different Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and it's i...。