While this multi-Oscar-winning film was controversial at the time of its release, it now seems overly preachy.
Comment
11/01/07
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 29 Fresh: 25 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
It occasionally fails to live up to its subject matter -- and is perhaps an 'important' film more than a 'great' one -- but the performances from Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire are superb.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Synopsis: The best of the few Hollywood treatments of anti-Semitism. Gregory Peck gives the right gravity to his role of a magazine reporter who comes to understand in a personal way the barriers imposed by prejudice when, to add depth to his magazine feature, he takes on a Jewish identity. Hart wrote the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere
Reviews
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You'd think a 60-year-old movie about prejudice would be passé by now. You'd be wrong.
05/10/07
Top Critic
An incisive look at the effects of anti-Semitism and the attempts to stamp it out.
10/24/06
Tame and too hopeful by today's standards, but Kazan's message drama was important in 1947, representing one of the first time that the word Jew was explicity used in a Hollywood picture.
07/15/06
Verdadeiro tratado sociológico sobre a intolerância e o preconceito, o filme continua a impressionar por sua ambição e por se manter atual quase 60 anos depois de realizado.
04/03/04
The film does try to tackle a subject matter that has not been covered too well by Hollywood at the time, and for that alone it should be commended.
01/21/04
I definitely can't fault Gentleman's Agreement for its subject matter, but man, does it ever beat you over the head with it.
10/26/03
The film still has abundant meaning and should be fully and widely enjoyed.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Gentleman’s Agreement may have been an important film at one time, but it was never a good film.
02/18/03
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