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Gentleman's Agreement is a american film of genre Drama directed by Elia Kazan released in USA on 11 november 1947 with Gregory Peck
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 november 1947
Length 1h58
Directed by Elia Kazan
OriginUSA
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about racism, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Rating71%
Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 drama film about a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on antisemitism in New York City and the affluent community of Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Oscars and won three: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm), and Best Director (Elia Kazan).
The movie was controversial in its time, as was a similar film on the same subject, Crossfire, which was released the same year (though that film was originally a story about homophobia, later changed to antisemitism). Gentleman's Agreement was based on Laura Z. Hobson's 1947 novel of the same name.
It was released on DVD as part of the 20th Century Fox Studio Classics collection.
Synopsis
Philip Schuyler Green (Gregory Peck) is a widowed journalist who has just moved to New York City with his son Tommy (Dean Stockwell) and mother (Anne Revere). Green meets with magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker), who asks Green, a gentile, to write an article on antisemitism ("some people don't like other people just because they're Jews"). He is not very enthusiastic at first, but after initially struggling with how to approach the topic in a fresh way, Green is inspired to adopt a Jewish identity ("Phil Greenberg") and writes about his first-hand experiences.Actors
Gregory Peck
(Philip Schuyler Green)
Dorothy McGuire
(Kathy Lacy)
John Garfield
(Dave Goldman)
Celeste Holm
(Anne Dettrey)
June Havoc
(Elaine Wales)
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