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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

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Average Rating: 6.4/10
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Movie Info

This meticulous and unusually long cinemadaptation of Sloan Wilson's best-selling novel The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as an ex-army officer, pursuing a living as a TV writer in the postwar years. Hired by a major broadcasting network, Peck is assigned to write speeches for the network's president (Fredric March). Peck comes to realize that the president's success has come at the expense of personal happiness, and this leads Peck to ruminate on his own life. Extended

Unrated, 2 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Classics

Directed By: Nunnally Johnson

Written By: Nunnally Johnson

On DVD: Aug 9, 2005

Cast

Gregory Peck
Tom Rath
Jennifer Jones
Betsy Rath
Fredric March
Ralph Hopkins
Marisa Pavan
Maria
Lee J Cobb
Judge Bernstein
Keenan Wynn
Caesar Gardella
Ann Harding
Mrs. Hopkins
Gene Lockhart
Bill Hawthorne
Portland Mason
Janie
Arthur O'Connell
Walker
Henry Daniell
Bill Ogden
Joseph Sweeney
Edward Schultz
Sandy Descher
Barbara
Mickey Maga
Pete
Kenneth Tobey
Mahoney
Ruth Clifford
Florence
Geraldine Wall
Miriam
Jerry Hall
Freddie
Frank Wilcox
Dr. Pearce
Nan Martin
Miss Lawrence
Leon Alton
Cliff
Phyllis Graffeo
Gina
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Hopkins' Maid
Dorothy Phillips
Maid
Mary Benoit
Secretary
King Lockwood
Business Executive
Lomax Study
Elevator Operator
Renata Vanni
Italian Farm Wife
Mario Siletti
Carriage Driver
Nathan Lee Graham
Crew Chief
Jeffrey Michael
Mr. Sims
Alexander Campbell
Johnson
Tristram Coffin
Byron Holgate
Connie Gilchrist
Mrs. Manter
Roy E. Glenn Sr.
Master Sergeant Matthew...
DeForest Kelley
Bit
Harry Lauter
Gigi Perreau
Susan Hopkins
William 'Bill' Phillips
Bugala
William Phipps
Soldier
Otto Reichow
Paul Glass
Robert Boon
German Soldier
John Crawford
Italian Boy
Jim Brandt
Raymond Winston
Phyllis Isley

Critic Reviews for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (4) | DVD (14)

As the broadcasting tycoon, Fredric March is excellent, and the scenes between him and Peck lift the picture high above the ordinary.

June 27, 2011 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

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Relentlessly envelops every idea, obscures every issue in a smug smog of suburbinanity.

June 27, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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TIME Magazine

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A mature, fascinating and often quite tender and touching film.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

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The film may seem mediocre now (it did back then), but it probably speaks volumes about the period, and Bernard Herrmann composed the score.

January 22, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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A surprisingly engrossing, if shallow and overlong, Hollywood vision of 1950s thirtysomethings, with Peck turning in a dignified title role.

June 27, 2011 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

[DVD] This title makes a mediocre addition to the Fox Studio Classics line, but there's no faulting the quality of this presentation. The result of a first-class restoration, the print is a beauty and the transfer flawless.

April 4, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com

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Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

But the film is so reductive, so often substitutes subtlety with theatrical gravitas, and so transparently stacks the deck in favor of a preordained outcome that it threatens to become a buttoned-down Reefer Madness for the corner-office set.

April 4, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com

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Mark Bourne

DVDJournal.com

Dated but still effective soap opera from the Sloan Wilson novel

August 10, 2005 Comment

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

The film isn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination, but neither does it reach out across the gap of time and really grab you.

August 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine

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Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine Source: Now Playing Magazine

An overly long movie that really doesn't have enough plot to sustain its running time, but is largely rescued by Peck's excellent performance, and the supporting cast.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

far more valuable as documentation of very particular time and place in American society than it is as drama

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Don Willmott

Filmcritic.com

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There are a lot of good actors in this movie, and the story is realistic, but it's so realistic that it's boring and uninteresting most of the time. It's okay, but it could have been a lot better.

September 5, 2010

AJ Verser

Super Reviewer

Well acted but very dated in its attitudes.

December 19, 2008

jay nixon

Super Reviewer

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