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#10,443 All-time worldwide
#26 1960 releases

Movie profile

Inherit the Wind

1960 · 128 min · Stanley Kramer Productions

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.0M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget —
ROI 1.00x

Domestic gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$180,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Inherit the Wind ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,443 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1960 releases #26 Release-year chart position of 44 titles Ranked against movies released in 1960. Studio / company #7 Stanley Kramer Productions of 8 titles Position inside the mapped Stanley Kramer Productions movie set. Primary genre #4,561 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#10,440 The Man from Elysian Fields 2001 · $2.0M #10,441 Betty Blue 1986 · $2.0M #10,442 Nemesis 1992 · $2.0M #10,500 The Double Life of Véronique 1991 · $2.0M #10,501 Limbo 1999 · $2.0M #10,502 The Top Bet 1991 · $2.0M

Quick answer

How did Inherit the Wind (1960) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Inherit the Wind (1960) earned a reported $2.0M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $0. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.00x. In this database it currently ranks #10,443 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #26 among 1960 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,000,000
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$0
ROI
1.00x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Jul 7, 1960
Production
Stanley Kramer Productions, United Artists
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyStanley Kramer Productions Release year chart1960 box office Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1960, Inherit the Wind is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Stanley Kramer Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.0M, reported production budget is $2.0M, ROI is 1.00x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,443 all-time in the current chart set and #26 among 1960 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.