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Name: Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Released: 1956-11-25
Cast: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton

Friendly Persuasion (1956)

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2h 17m
1956

80%

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A Quaker family's idyllic life is torn by the family members' strong, conflicting beliefs--nonviolence, justice, truth, and respect for individuality--as each confronts the approaching United States Civil War with Friendly Persuasion. Academy Award winner Gary Cooper stars as a father trying to hold his family together and remain true to his deeply held conviction that there is that of God in everyone. For him, it is unthinkable to take the life of any person--but it is equally unthinkable to tolerate slavery. Now, each member of his family must choose between nonviolence and the fight to end slavery as the Civil War comes to their Southern Indiana farm.

Director:

William Wyler

Producer:

William Wyler

Writer:

Michael Wilson

Cast:

Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Phyllis Love, Peter Mark Richman, Walter Catlett, Richard Hale, Joel Fluellen, Theodore Newton, John Smith, Edna Skinner, Marjorie Durant, Frances Farwell, Marjorie Main

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

80%

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

It often seems fuzzy in intent and execution, with too much broad comedy swamping the more dramatic interludes and a stance that vacillates between pro-war and anti-war.

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

I did not find it entertaining, but it was a morally worthy film.

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David N. Butterworth

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.

Exceptional Civil War-set story of religious differences.

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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Additional Info

Genre:Drama, Family
Release Date:November 25, 1956
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo

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