GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT (1947) Funny, he doesn't look Jewish!

GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT is about anti-Semitism (the so-called "gentlemen's agreement" among Gentiles). It’s also about the challenges of relationships (son and mother, father and son, man and woman, man and friend). Our eyes to all this is Phil Green (Gregory Peck), a non-Jewish journalist hired to write an expose on anti Semitism in America. In order to find out what anti-Semitism is, and far more importantly, how it feels to be a Jew, he poses as one. You don’t have to be Jewish to feel everything Peck does throughout his painful but ultimately rewarding odyssey. John Garfield wonderfully portrays Peck’s cynical childhood friend, a Jew.