Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 7
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.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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.
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Adapted by Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson, this film stars Gregory Peck as recently widowed journalist Phil Green. With a growing son (Dean Stockwell) to support, Green is receptive to the invitation of magazine publisher John Minify (Albert Dekker) to write a series of hard-hitting articles on the scourge of anti-Semitism. In order to glean his information first hand, Green decides to pose as a Jew. As the weeks go by, Green experiences all manner of prejudice, the most insidious
Nov 11, 1947 Wide
Mar 7, 2000
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Gregory Peck
Phil Green -
Dorothy McGuire
Kathy Lacey -
John Garfield
Dave Goldman -
Celeste Holm
Anne Dettrey -
June Havoc
Miss Wales -
Dean Stockwell
Tommy Green -
Anne Revere
Mrs. Green -
Wilton Graff
Maitre d' -
Albert Dekker
John Minify -
Sam Jaffe
Prof. Lieberman -
Curt Conway
Bert McAnny -
Morgan Farley
Clerk -
Nicholas Joy
Dr. Craigle -
Victor Kilian
Olsen -
Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Minify -
Louise Lorimer
Miss Miller -
Howard Negley
Tingler -
John Newland
Bill -
Roy Roberts
Mr. Calkins Hotel Manag... -
Ransom Sherman
Bill Payson -
Harold Vermilyea
Jordan Personnel Manage... -
Robert Warwick
Weisman -
Frank Wilcox
Harry -
Jane Wyatt
Jane Lacey -
Olive Carey
1st woman -
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Virginia Gregg
3rd Woman -
Mauritz Hugo
Columnist -
Robert Karnes
1st Ex-GI in restaurant -
Marion Marshall
Guest -
Jesse White
Elevator Starter -
Gene Nelson
2nd Ex-G.I -
Jane Green
2nd woman -
Marilyn Monk
Receptionist -
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All Critics (32) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (7) | DVD (11)
Agreement was tame, cautious stuff even back then.
By dispassionate critical standards, Gentleman's Agreement is not a success. It is a tract rather than a play and it has the crusader's shortcomings.
The movie is as powerful today as when it captured the Best Picture Oscar a few years after Hitler's genocide ended in Europe.
Gentleman's Agreement is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off.
Top CriticIt looks pretty timorous now.
[A] brilliant and powerful film.
Elia Kazan's furious look at barely dormant post-war anti-Semitism and the lengths of performance gets a classy Blu-ray release from Fox with interesting extras and a top-shelf A/V transfer.
While this multi-Oscar-winning film was controversial at the time of its release, it now seems overly preachy.
You'd think a 60-year-old movie about prejudice would be passé by now. You'd be wrong.
[It] remains a classic crusading film.
An incisive look at the effects of anti-Semitism and the attempts to stamp it out.
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.
Preachy but effective indictment of anti-Semitism
A frightening time capsule of ethnic intolerance.
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.
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.
Audience Reviews for Gentleman's Agreement
Super Reviewer
It is a good movie though, although it comes across as rather tame and typical by moden standards. So, in order to really enjoy it, you just have to force yourself into the same environment that the film was made and takes place in. You can get enjoyment out of it if you don't do that, but you might not find the film to be as impactful, either.
It is a tad bit boring, and I think they could have handled the issues a little better, but, given the circumstances, they really pushed the envelope for the time, and did the best they could. I do like the performances though, because Peck is as reliable and watchable as always. The others are good too, but unfortunately, the score makes everyone seem more melodramatic than was probably intended.
All in all, a decent enough film that tries to explore some serious issues. Some of its relevancy has worn off, but the principles remain. If you want to see how important social and cultural issues were dealt with via film in the past, you could do a whole lot worse than this.
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