Gentleman's Agreement

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Gentleman's Agreement

(1947)

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Overview

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

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Elia Kazan

Director
Laura Z. Hobson

Novel
Moss Hart

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Gregory Peck

Philip Schuyler Green
Dorothy McGuire

Kathy Lacy
John Garfield

Dave Goldman
Celeste Holm

Anne Dettrey
Anne Revere

Mrs. Green

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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 r... read the rest.

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