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1947 Certificate U
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GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT is an excellent film that addresses anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Moss Hart wrote the script, based on the novel by .. Read more

Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm
Director Elia Kazan
Genres Drama

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Gentleman's Agreement

GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT is an excellent film that addresses anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Moss Hart wrote the script, based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson.

Starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, June Havoc, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere, Albert Dekker, Sam Jaffe
Director Elia Kazan
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 52 mins
Certificate Certificate U
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released DVD: 06 May 2002
Production year: 1947
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    An eye-opener in its day, this exposure of high-society racial prejudice still has the power to compel. The story of magazine writer Gregory Peck, passing himself off as a Jew to reveal anti-Semitism, is not violently confrontational, but is successful in showing that the subtle malaise is barely recognised as such by the people who sustain it. Writer Moss Hart pressed all the politically correct postwar buttons, adapting Laura Z Hobson's controversial bestseller for rising young director Elia Kazan, and, while it's one of Peck's finest performances, other members of the cast produced work of similarly high quality — the confused liberal Dorothy McGuire, the soured poseur Celeste Holm and the cynically bitter ex-serviceman John Garfield. Twentieth Century-Fox gave this blast at bigotry all the hype it needed and the result was Academy awards and nominations all round.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Academy Award-winning but sentimental and muddled account of a journalist (Peck) who passes himself off as a Jew in... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 14 out of 19 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

    Rachel B from London, England

    'Journalist Skiler Green (Cary Grant)' ........

    What film were you watching!!!!!!!!

    The journalist I saw was played by Gregory Peck........

    A film now out of its time.

      • Sparkie from BRISTOL, UK
      • Posted 23 Jun 2005 16:56

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    I was Jewish for 6 months

    Gregory Peck is a young, ambitious journalist who poses as a Jew to provide background for an article on anti-Semitism. In doing so this deception affects his romance with Dorothy MCGuire and relationship with his son (a young Dean Stockwell). Peck's character discovers anti-Semitism, not among the usual bigots, but middleclass Americans, institutions and an acceptance amonst Jews themselves that causes them 'not to rock the boat' and anglicize their names. The worst aspect of prejudice, Peck finds, is when the good people ignore it and allow it to grow. Anti-Semitism was rife in America of this period as documented by Philip Roth and other writers and, unusually, the film fails to mention the Holocaust as the end-result. Despite its flaws and tendancy to lecture, Gentleman's Agreement is an intelligent, well-acted film that is still relevant today.

      • Leon Collins from London
      • Posted 10 May 2006 12:09

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      GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT is an excellent film that addresses anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Moss Hart wrote the ...