Peck and McGuire are incredible as the leads, but (and this is a good thing), Jew-bashing has faded as a commonly-experienced social ill.
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01/01/00
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:24
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
[It] remains a classic crusading film.
12/12/06
While this multi-Oscar-winning film was controversial at the time of its release, it now seems overly preachy.
11/01/07
Gentleman's Agreement is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off.
02/18/09
The film still has abundant meaning and should be fully and widely enjoyed.
05/20/03
The uncompromising moral stance of Phil, and the movie, makes it difficult for audience members to watch and not question their own day-to-day behaviour.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/22/03
No review available.
10/09/05
Preachy but effective indictment of anti-Semitism
01/18/05
No review available.
10/01/04
It looks pretty timorous now.
02/17/09
Top CriticThe 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
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
[A] brilliant and powerful film.
02/19/08
No review available.
10/11/02
A seriously flawed, groundbreaking work that's more important for what it tries to do than for what it actually does.
08/22/02
You'd think a 60-year-old movie about prejudice would be passé by now. You'd be wrong.
05/10/07
It's obvious that screenwriter Moss Hart and director Elia Kazan felt strongly about their subject.
01/01/00
Gentleman’s Agreement may have been an important film at one time, but it was never a good film.
02/18/03
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