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Release Date:
February 1948 (USA) more
Plot:
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 6 nominations more
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User Comments:
A Good portrayal of indiscriminate prejudice that leaves lifetime damage more (80 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Gregory Peck | ... | Philip Schuyler Green | |
| Dorothy McGuire | ... | Kathy Lacy | |
| John Garfield | ... | Dave Goldman | |
| Celeste Holm | ... | Anne Dettrey | |
| Anne Revere | ... | Mrs. Green | |
| June Havoc | ... | Elaine Wales | |
| Albert Dekker | ... | John Minify | |
| Jane Wyatt | ... | Jane | |
| Dean Stockwell | ... | Tommy Green | |
| Nicholas Joy | ... | Dr. Craigie | |
| Sam Jaffe | ... | Professor Fred Lieberman | |
| Harold Vermilyea | ... | Lou Jordan | |
| Ransom M. Sherman | ... | Bill Payson |
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Laura Z. Hobson's Gentleman's Agreement (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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118 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Canada:PG (video rating) | Brazil:Livre | West Germany:12 (f) (w) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:U (video rating) (1990) | UK:U (tv rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:S | Spain:13 | USA:Approved (PCA #12488) | Sweden:Btl | Australia:G
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Shooting started in late May 1947 and took 3 months. The film opened in November of that year to overwhelming critical favor. more
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Factual errors: When Phil is taking Tommy to meet his (Phil's) mother at Saks Fifth Avenue, they stop in front of the statue of Atlas outside Rockefeller Center. In the shot of the two of them talking, with Fifth Avenue in the background, Saks is directly behind them, diagonally across the street on the right, with St. Patrick's Cathedral on the left. But when Phil looks at his watch and tells Tommy they'd better leave to meet grandma, the two hurry off back north along Fifth Avenue - in the completely opposite direction of the plainly visible Saks. more
Quotes:
Tommy Green:
What's anti-Semitism?
Phil Green:
Well, uh, that's when some people don't like other people just because they're Jews.
Tommy Green:
Why not? Are Jews bad?
Phil Green:
Well, some are and some aren't, just like with everyone else.
Tommy Green:
What are Jews, anyway?
Phil Green:
Well, uh, it's like this. Remember last week when you asked me about that big church, and I told you there are all different kinds of churches? Well, the people who go to that particular church are called Catholics, and there are people who go to different churches and they're called Protestants, and there are people who go to different churches and they're called Jews, only they call their churches temples or synagogues.
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Gregory Peck is slick as a writer for a publisher who is trying to find something to inspire him after his wife dies. He must take care of his young son and has his mother there in New York to help him out. Anti-Semitism hits a chord as WWII has just ended with news of the Holocaust just barely starting to sink into the national consciousness. The timing for release of this movie is obvious, but it is carefully thought out as the director tries to convey the sinister and insidious way in which prejudice worms its way into the mainstream of everyday life. A well done film that works! A clever and intelligent portrayal that deserved the attention it received. Not an entertaining movie in the strictest sense, but one where the audience must do the work of thinking their way through it. It is a film worth navigating, however, because the ugly mirror of prejudice is held up to us all who are watching. It makes you feel uncomfortable because most of us are guilty of what is offered, or at least, of witnessing prejudice and doing nothing about it as we just sit or stand idly by and do nothing.
I recommend this film, but it won't be for everyone and many of us would rather just pass this one by. But we should not pass it by, even though it holds up this mirror which makes us feel guilty and uncomfortable. I should point out that the ending which relates to the love interest in the story just doesn't work, but then that is not the heart, soul and purpose of the film. Prejudice, anti-Semitism and discrimination are, and these elements are worked out well. A disturbing, but intelligent portrayal which is worth taking in for what it is worth.