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Gentleman's Agreement 118 minutes, USA (1947), U
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to expose the extent of anti-Semitism in well-heeled New York. Gregory Peck stars in this powerful 1947 drama by the director of A Streetcar Named Desire and On The Waterfront, Elia Kazan

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Gentleman's Agreement: In 1947 the issues which drive Elia Kazan's crusading drama were studiously avoided by Hollywood, yet the film's treatment of endemic prejudice in respectable society remains pertinent decades later. Anti-Semitism had long been filmmaking's most inapproachable taboo, the entrenchment of anti-Jewish sentiment reflected in the film's ironic title...
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