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Gentleman's agreement [videorecording] / Twentieth-Century-Fox Film Corporation ; [presented by] Darryl F. Zanuck ; producer, Darryl F. Zanuck ; screenplay writer, Moss Hart ; director, Elia Kazan.

Other Titles: Gentleman's agreement.

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Home Entertainment, [2002]

Description: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Series: 20th Century Fox studio classics ; 2

Subject: Antisemitism Drama.
Jews United States Drama.
Feature films. gsafd
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcsh

Credits: Photography, Arthur Miller ; editor, Harmon Jones ; music, Alfred Newman.

Performers: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell.

Notes: Dialogue in English with optional soundtrack in French and Spanish, and with optional Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1947.
Based on the novel by Laura Z. Hobson.
Special features: audio commentary by Celeste Holm, June Havoc and film critic Richard Schickel; AMC Backstory episode: "Gentleman's agreement"; 2 Fox Movietone newsreels; still gallery; theatrical trailer.
Academy Award, 1947: Best Picture; Best Supporting Actress (Celeste Holm); Best Director (Elia Kazan)

Summary: A journalist assigned to write a series of articles on anti-semitism decides to pose as a Jew and finds out first-hand what it is like to be the victim of intolerance.

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