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Inherit the Wind
Scored from 202 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
In the small Southern town of Hillsboro, schoolteacher Bertram Cates is jailed for reading Darwin to his biology class in defiance of state law. The prosecution imports Matthew Harrison Brady, a three-time presidential candidate and revered fundamentalist orator whom the town greets with a parade; the defence sends Henry Drummond, a rumpled celebrity attorney and Brady's old friend, whom the same crowd treats as the devil's own advocate. Baltimore columnist E. K. Hornbeck needles both sides in print, and Cates's fiancée Rachel is caught between him and her father, the hellfire preacher Reverend Brown. Stanley Kramer's courtroom drama, from the Lawrence and Lee play, fictionalises the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial."
Inherit the Wind (1960) is a film IMDb files under the biography, drama and history genres. Its certificate is Approved. It runs 2h 8m. Its country of origin is listed as the United States.
The calibrated figure is built from 202 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 206 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 602 of whom clear the calibration test. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Inherit the Wind lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 202.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
