Friendly Persuasion
Here's A Superb Motion Picture Full Of Fun...Laughter and Happiness
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DVD Details
- Documentary
- Production Notes
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles: English, French
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 5, 2000
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Gary Cooper & Dorothy McGuire | |
Performer: | Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton & Walter Catlett | |
Directed by | William Wyler | |
Edited by | Robert Swink, Edward A. Biery & Robert Belcher | |
Screenplay by | Michael Wilson | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Produced by | William Wyler | |
Director of Photography: | Ellsworth Fredericks |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1957 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
While painting one of the better portraits of Quaker life, the film's sober, Civil War-focused intentions are constantly undermined by slapstick situations and erstwhile tomfoolery.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Exceptional Civil War-set story of religious differences.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: B+ --
In Wyler's Civil War drama, Gary Cooper's most popular film of the 1950s, the star plays his quinessential role, a pacifist family man who needs to probe his soul before using physical violence.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...FRIENDLY PERSUASION made Oscar-nominated Anthony Perkins a star, and it's probably the best movie Gary Cooper made after HIGH NOON...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A big, colorful, entertaining movie that could only have been made in the 1950s.
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Goatdog's Movies
Rating: B --
Warm, gently satiric portrait of a family of the "Friendly persuasion" living in the shadow of the Civil War
does justice neither to Quakerism nor to just-war theory, but its warm affection for its subjects makes it worthwhile viewing.
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Decent Films Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
Heartwarming account of Quakers during the Civil War
Film Journal International
Description by OLDIES.com:
For two years the Civil War has been elsewhere. Now Confederate forces are nearby, looting and burning. It is time to fight back, Jess Birdwell's neighbors insist. Yet Birdwell, a Quaker, knows there must be a better way to settle things. In a role ideally suiting his stalwart persona, Gary Cooper plays Jess in William Wyler's beloved film of Jessamyn West's novel that earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins and a superior cast get to the heart of family, faith and pacifism put to the test.
Product Description:
Indiana, 1862. Quakers Jess and Eliza Birdwell (Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire) live on their family farm. There are only minor ruffles in their quiet life--youngest son, Little Jess, has a running battle with the pet goose, Samantha; Eliza disapproves when Jess turns their weekly buggy ride to worship into a race with neighbor Sam Jordan (Robert Middleton). But the Civil War threatens their calm. Will the Quaker men defend themselves against the invading Confederate Army' Their oldest son, Josh (Anthony Perkins), is torn between beliefs and desires. And what will Jess do when put to the test'
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- UPC: 085391669326
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