Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
- Elia Kazan
- Moss Hart
- Laura Z. Hobson
Rating: 7/10 by 246 users
Alternative Title:
A Luz é Para Todos - BR
그레고리 팩의 인생찾기 - KR
신사협정 - KR
La luz es para todos - AR
Tabu der Gerechten - AT
De onzichtbare muur - BE
Džentlmenski sporazum - HR
Mand og mand imellem - DK
La barrera invisible - ES
그레고리 펙의 인생찾기 - KR
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 58 minutes
Budget: $2,000,000
Revenue: $7,800,000
Plot Keyword: new york city, based on novel or book, magazine, anti-semitism, black and white, writer, soldier, widower, racial prejudice, gentile, father son relationship
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...
