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20th Academy Awards
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(1947)
Best picture: Gentleman's Agreement
Starring: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere
Synopsis: The title refers to the unspoken agreement among gentiles (非犹太教徒) to discriminate against Jews. Widower Green, an investigating journalist, moves to a big New York City magazine. The liberal editor Albert Dekker assigns him to write a series of articles on the problem.
Green pretends to be Jewish so as to report with a firsthand perspective. His pretense works -- he's new to New York City, so no one knows him. He introduces himself around as Phil Green, writer and Jew.
Trouble begins immediately: His young son Tommy gets into schoolyard fights with ignorant little bullies (流氓，恶霸). His new girlfriend, Kathy, a liberal product of Eastern schools and neice of Albert Dekker, knows that Green is not Jewish, yet she does not actively fight evil. The love scenes are mixed with the moments of awkwardness and ambivalence between Green and Kathy. He encounters prejudice on all sides, even from Jews.
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