Today, it looks like a heart on a sleeve, but GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT is a landmark film--Hollywood's first major attack on anti-Semitism.
Peck, in a convincing portrayal, is a magazine writer who decides to write a series of exposes on anti-Semitism. After failing to achieve an in-depth grasp of the problem, he pretends to be Jewish in order to experience the hostility of bigots first-hand. AGREEMENT surprised audiences of 1947, and
it was a heroic endeavor personally sponsored by producer Zanuck (who, ironically, was one of the few Hollywood moguls who was not Jewish; in fact his 20th Century-Fox was known, in filmdom's argot, as "the goyim studio").
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Released:
1947
Rated:
NR
Length:
118 mins