William Stroock (as in Stroock's Books)
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
What Will's Watching
Gentleman's Agreement: Gregory Peck and John Garfield take on WASPy anti-Semitism in 1947. Peck plays Phil Green, a gentile magazine writer who wants to blow the top off of Jew hatred. john Garfield is as tough as ever as Green's childhood best friend. Estelle Holm gives an Oscar performance as the magazine's witty, wry and perceptive fashion editor. Watch her closely. Hokey, but that's what the country wanted, needed, and deserved in the late 40's. It's a period piece now. Who are these men that wear a coat, tie and fedora everywhere they go? Growing up in the NYC's northern suburbs and living in Dover, Arlington and now New Jersey, we have never, ever experienced anti-Semitism of the type shown in this film. Never.
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Always felt anti semitism was overblown in the US now in Europe different story growing up on the South Jews were fellow Whites who were people of the book now rasicm against blacks yes I saw a lot of that down here but hardly any anti Jewish
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