Opening on Broadway in 1955, Inherit the Wind was intended to indict McCarthy's anticommunism, not Bryan's fundamentalism. Nevertheless, by basing the play loosely on the Scopes trial — Bryan became Brady, Darrow became Drummond, Mencken became Hornbeck, Scopes became Cates, and Dayton became Hillsboro — Lawrence and Lee embedded their vision of the trial in the American popular consciousness. Starring in the 1960 film version — which premiered in Dayton — were Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly.