Gentleman's Agreement
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Movie Reviews of Gentleman's Agreement
Movie Review: Exposing Racism Against Jews In late 1940s America
Summary: 5 Stars
For those who have never experienced the effects of racism it must be difficult to comprehend what that does to a person. This film involves a magazine writer Philip Schuyler Green - played by Gregory Peck - who poses as a Jewish man to find out how people will react. He does this because he has been assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism. The way ordinary people react to Green shocks him to the core and underlines the deeply rooted racism against Jews which was present at that time. The most moving scene in the film for me is when Green is confronted by outright racism in a hotel. Director Elia Kazan and producer Darryl F Zanuck took a great risk producing this film and they did so against a backdrop of other well know Jewish film-makers pleading with them not to make it, because they knew the furore that it would produce. In the event Gentlemans Agreement was a hugely successful film and went on to take three Oscars. Gregory Peck paid heavily for his involvement in this film because he was blackballed by one establishment after another for the next twenty years. Gentleman's Agreement is a very powerful film which has not lost any of it's impact in the past five decades.Movie Review: Unfortunately NOT Dated
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most brilliant films I've ever seen from this or any era. Even though America has elected Barack Obama, bigotry is still very much alive in this country. There has been a 48% rise in hate groups since 2000, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Watch. Just today I was in conversation with a "spiritually elevated" individual who used the flagrant rhetoric of hate in our conversation, as if it were perfectly acceptable.
Only in Imitation of Life with Claudette Colbert can I recall the issues of bigotry so directly confronted in such an artful way. I suspect that hatred is so deeply programmed into the human condition that it will take thousands of years before it finally evolves out of the species. If it ever does.
Movie Review: Gentalman's Agreement
Summary: 5 Stars
Gentleman's Argeement is one of the great classics. It was winner of Oscar in 47 and shot in black & white. I would like to say the theme of discrimanation is just as real today only in some oppisite way. It has gone to be more open I'm afraid. If you like "To Kill a Mockingbird" you'll like this film. It presents human choices from an adult propective and asks the question why. There are answers, but I think each person comes up with there own answer.
This is a must see film. I highly recommend it.
Movie Review: Another great film to discover!
Summary: 5 Stars
We've been watching movies dealing with prejudice this month -- I don't know how I've missed seeing this excellent film for all these years. Gregory Peck is magnificent, and John Garfield is fabulous. The "Special Features" includes a "Background" segment discussing anti-Semitism in the late 1940s - early 1950s, and the House Un-American Activities hearings of that era. One of the "Best Picture" films I hadn't seen -- and now I'm very glad that I have.Movie Review: A winning adapatation !
Summary: 5 Stars
Laura Z Hobson novel allowed to adapt to screen this original script in which a writter pretends to be jewish and he will be surprised before such pedestrian and obtuse anti semitism .
One of the most powerful films of the forties .Fine acting of Gregory Peck and astonishing direction of Elia Kazan .