Gentleman's Agreement

It's hard for today's audience to appreciate the impact of Gentlemen's Agreement in 1947. The Holocaust was not in textbooks then, it was in newsreels showed in American theaters. The state of Israel was coming into being and there was... Full review

This movie was very well done, and in my opinion should be shown to young people at school. That way it can help to prevent prejudices and bigotry from taking root in future generations. As John Garfield's character in the... Full review

just as philip's magazine editor told him, any hack could write a column on the subject based on facts and figures. what they needed was a different angle that would capture the audience on a gut level. the theme wasn't... Full review

I hate to say it, but before I saw this movie, I did not realize that there was racism against Jews in the post war period. I couldn't understand it: why would Americans promote the very thing they fought against... Full review

Gregory Peck is slick as a writer for a publisher who is trying to find something to inspire him after his wife dies. He must take care of his young son and has his mother there in New York to... Full review

Peck was stiff and somewhat smugly boring. Garfield was full of life in his relatively small part, however what could have been better than a real Jewish individual playing the role of one in "role reversal"? It seems to me that... Full review

Laura Hobson's novel is brought to the screen in 1947, when it took courage to present a film of this subject. You'd think with Elia Kazan's direction and top notch casting, it would be a great film. It isn't. I... Full review

20th Century Fox currently is releasing a new "Studio Classics" DVD series, each a famous film from the past packaged with often compellingly interesting special features. Few releases are more important than 1947's Academy Award winning "Gentleman's Agreement," a for-the-times... Full review

On the one hand, Gentleman's Agreement has a highly enlightened prejudice, even today, let alone 1947. Gregory Peck plays a journalist who decides to pretend to be Jewish so he can attain a real-life perspective on anti-semitism. Peck's transformation from... Full review

Certainly the preachiest film ever to win Best Picture, and almost the preachiest film ever to be made, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Gentleman's Agreement isn't a good movie. In fact, I thought it was a fine film and... Full review

Gentleman's Agreement is a gripping and relevant story that carries a great deal of weight to this day, especially in light of Kazan's history in Hollywood. Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl Zanuck were willing to take that risk, though, and the result was a film that would go on to win the Academy Award for best picture. ... Full Review

Gentleman's Agreement may be a trifle too earnest at times, but it's obvious that screenwriter Moss Hart and director Elia Kazan felt strongly about their subject. Trouble begins immediately: His young son, Tommy (an adorable Dean Stockwell) gets into schoolyard fights with ignorant little bullies. ... Full Review

Billed, rather unfortunately, as the picture that calls a spade a spade, the film is rather glum and humourless and is inclined to preach with some clunky passages of dialogue that are impossible to speak with conviction. I was reminded of this incident during a key speech in Gentlemans Agreement when Peck reacts bitterly to something said by the woman he loves. ... Full Review

Not exactly light-hearted fare, and the now 50+ year-old film has aged to the point of near-irrelevance. 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. ... Full Review

In its latest DVD iteration, Gentleman's Agreement looks good in full-frame black and white and the sound is adequate in either stereo or the film's original mono. It is mostly Schickel, who is kind of refreshing in that he doesn't completely love the movie, so he doesn't mind picking apart its weaknesses, from Peck's poor performance to the script's flaws. ... Full Review

A Peoria Heights shop was transformed into a movie set Monday night. Cords and cables lined the floor of The Moon Dancer. Lights situated on the sidewalk outside shined through the windows of the eclectic boutique as crew members bustled... ... Full Article

"Are you Jewish?" is a question often lobbed at Jamie Kastner, a Toronto filmmaker and writer. Why do you want to know?, he asks in a film that flings the question back as he moves around the globe - New... ... Full Article

Wed., Nov. 30, 2005 3:00 PM PST by Sarah Hall It's a case that would meet with Atticus Finch's disapproval. Sometime within the last two weeks, determined saw-wielding thieves managed to remove Gregory Peck's star from Hollywood's Walk of Fame... ... Full Article

Reviewed by Colin Jacobson (December 9, 2003) Growing up I got subjected to many of those awful "Afterschool Specials". Actually, some of them seemed decent, but something about the simplistic way in which these shows would neatly and lamely educate... ... Full Article

Wiry, solemn-faced American actor Curt Conway interrupted stage work to appear in his first film, Gentleman's Agreement (1947). As Bert McAnny in the Oscar-winning film, Conway was one of many Anglo-Saxon types who opened mouth and inserted foot when Gregory... ... Full Article

Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement is, particularly for its time, an uncommonly smart analysis of prejudice. It is about anti-Semitism, but what it has to say about it applies equally well to all races and religions that are discriminated against in... ... Full Article