Gentleman's Agreement is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off.
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02/18/09
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
83 %
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 25
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: It occasionally fails to live up to its subject matter -- and is perhaps an 'important' film more than a 'great' one -- but the performances from Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire are superb.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Though the studios of the Golden Age were reluctant to produce films about Anti-Semitism, this Elia Kazan picture remains one of the best of the few Hollywood treatments of the subject. Gregory... [More]
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm
Director: Elia Kazan
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Reviews for Gentleman's Agreement
Top CriticIt looks pretty timorous now.
02/17/09
Top Critic[A] brilliant and powerful film.
02/19/08
Top CriticWhile this multi-Oscar-winning film was controversial at the time of its release, it now seems overly preachy.
11/01/07
Top CriticYou'd think a 60-year-old movie about prejudice would be passé by now. You'd be wrong.
05/10/07
[It] remains a classic crusading film.
12/12/06
Top CriticAn incisive look at the effects of anti-Semitism and the attempts to stamp it out.
10/24/06
Tame and too hopeful by today's standards, but Kazan's message drama was important in 1947, representing one of the first time that the word Jew was explicity used in a Hollywood picture.
07/15/06
Good performances, however, particularly from Garfield and Holm.
06/24/06
No review available.
10/09/05
No review available.
07/17/05
Preachy but effective indictment of anti-Semitism
01/18/05
No review available.
10/01/04
A frightening time capsule of ethnic intolerance.
07/21/04
Verdadeiro tratado sociológico sobre a intolerância e o preconceito, o filme continua a impressionar por sua ambição e por se manter atual quase 60 anos depois de realizado.
04/03/04
The film does try to tackle a subject matter that has not been covered too well by Hollywood at the time, and for that alone it should be commended.
01/21/04
I definitely can't fault Gentleman's Agreement for its subject matter, but man, does it ever beat you over the head with it.
10/26/03
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
07/08/03
The film still has abundant meaning and should be fully and widely enjoyed.
05/20/03
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