The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
by Nunnally Johnson
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Actor: Fredric March, Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Lee J. Cobb, Marisa PavanDirector: Nunnally Johnson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 152 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Movie Review: Perhaps more interesting today
Summary: 5 Stars
I've never been impressed with those who claim to be struggling against hidebound reactionaries. All too often, they have beliefs that are more out-of-touch with reality than those they criticize.
Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, for instance, often duped liberals with her claim to be battling for the right to talk about sex. In reality, the America of the early twentieth-century was still heavily agricultural and no agricultural society, surrounded by constantly breeding animals, is ignorant about sex. What Sanger's mostly religious critics disliked was a view of human sexuality that was a quirky blend of the mechanical and the mystical picked up from Havelock Ellis. If you've not heard of him, Ellis was a once well-regarded sex expert, a sort of Kinsey of the early 1900s. Like Kinsey, he was strange when it came to sex. He married a lesbian, hoping to convert her to heterosexuality through his charms and despite the fact that he was impotent. Try to wrap your mind around that. "Weird" doesn't quite do justice to what he was and what he made of Margaret Sanger and her kindred today.
"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," often described as an illustration of 1950s conformity, is equally unsettling to liberal stereotyping. In it Gregory Peck is a haunted man, haunted by the horrors of World War II, haunted by an affair he had in Italy, and haunted (or perhaps nagged) by an ambitious wife who can't understand how the war changed him. That's hardly the dull, "Leave it To Beaver" world some want us to imagine the 1950s as.
Perhaps the most refreshing thing about this film are two attitudes Peck displays that far less common today. Gregory Peck doesn't bail out of his marriage when troubles arise. He fights to keep it healthy even when that harms his career. And he also keeps his problems to himself, not blabbing them out to any and all for "therapy," and not playing the victim.
This is a stimulating and provocative film, perhaps even more so than when it was released in 1956. It belongs on your "much watch" list. You might also want to listen to the commentary track, which discusses life a half-century ago. I didn't know, for instance, that in the 1950s, the style of a man's hat said something about his status at work. One style meant management, another meant office worker. Peck's hat says that as a writer he was among the latter.
--Michael W. Perry, editor of The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic by Margaret Sanger and others.
Summary of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Based on the novel by Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit stars Gregory Peck as a haunted New York executive whp defies convention and decides his family is more important than his career in this post-war melodrama scripted and directed by the celebrated Nunnally Johnson (The Three Faces of Eve).Gregory Peck plays a young New York executive who defies the wisdom of the corporate class by deciding his family is more important than the offer of a new job. Lots of melodrama, guilt, and a revelation about a wartime affair (told in flashback), but this well-oiled, good-looking 1956 film still holds up pretty well. Based on a novel by Sloan Wilson, the script and direction are by Nunnally Johnson (The Three Faces of Eve). --Tom Keogh
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