NR | 1h 26m | Drama | 1947
Director Edward Dmytryk’s film, eyeing the unseeing nature of prejudice, secured as many as five Oscar nominations, but won none. It was just Dmytryk’s luck that “Gentleman’s Agreement,” a competing film then, also pondering prejudice, managed as many as eight nominations, three awards. No matter. Beneath Dmytryk’s veneer of crackling noir, lies a thought-provoking entertainer.
