Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield. Phil Green (Peck), a professional writer, gets an assignment to do a series on anti-Semitism. The angle he chooses is to pretend that he is Jewish, and he soon runs into prejudice. It's probably important to remember that this movie came out in 1947, just a couple of years after the Holocaust was revealed to a shocked world. But the film itself, which was probably rather daring in '47, seems tame by today's standards. The message is good, but the script contains more than a few clinkers. (The DVD offers both English subtitles and closed captions.) Grade: B
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