Gentleman's Agreement

11/11/19471h 58m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Director:

Elia Kazan

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$2,000,000.00

Revenue:

$7,800,000.00

Key words:

new york city
based on novel or book
magazine
antisemitism
black and white
writer
soldier
widower
racial prejudice
gentile
father son relationship

Cast

Gregory Peck

~ as ~

Philip Schuyler Green

Dorothy McGuire

~ as ~

Kathy Lacy

John Garfield

~ as ~

Dave Goldman

Celeste Holm

~ as ~

Anne Dettrey

Anne Revere

~ as ~

Mrs. Green

June Havoc

~ as ~

Elaine Wales

Albert Dekker

~ as ~

John Minify

Jane Wyatt

~ as ~

Jane

Dean Stockwell

~ as ~

Tommy Green

Nicholas Joy

~ as ~

Dr. Craigie

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Reviews (1)

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talisencrw
Written 9 year(s) ago
9
Just two years after Kazan's feature-film debut (and the end of WWII) came this firecracker which became up to that point his most successful film (although A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Boomerang would also garner Oscar nominations), and it's ironic that so shortly after a great war was won, mainly against racism and the killing of Jews overseas, Gregory Peck's Schuyler Green, in undercover work for an expose to satiate his new, New York City boss, discovers rampant anti-Semitism uncomfortably much closer to home. I love John Garfield's work, rather late in his short career, in the supporting role of Dave Goldman (he should have received an Oscar nomination as well). The film was very successful, taking in three trophies for eight tries altogether (for Best Director, Picture and Supporting Actress--Celeste Holm), and its ending--stressing that forgiveness and tolerance are possible (when Green returns home and forgives his wife)--is very important, though he chose the wrong woman...