売れっ子ライターのフィルは、新天地ニューヨークで、週刊誌の編集長から反ユダヤ主義に関する記事の執筆を依頼される。悩んだ末、自らユダヤ人を名乗って体験取材を始めるが、その話が広まった途端、周囲の態度がよそよそしくなってゆき…。
AIが作品の魅力を深く読み解いています
製作費: $2,000,000 (3億円)
興行収入: $7,800,000 (12億円)
推定収支: $5,800,000 (9億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: エリア・カザン
脚本: Moss Hart / Laura Z. Hobson
音楽: Alfred Newman
制作: Darryl F. Zanuck
撮影監督: Arthur C. Miller
制作会社: 20th Century Fox
Just two years after Kazan's feature-film debut (and the end of WWII) came this firecracker which became up to that point his most successful film (although A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Boomerang would also garner Oscar nominations), and it's ironic that so shortly after a great war was won, mainly against racism and the killing of Jews overseas, Gregory Peck's Schuyler Green, in undercover work for an expose to satiate his new, New York City boss, discovers rampant anti-Semitism uncomfortably much closer to home. I love John Garfield's work, rather late in his short career, in the supporting role of Dave Goldman (he should have received an Oscar nomination as well). The film was very successful, taking in three trophies for eight tries altogether (for Best Director, Picture and Supporting Actress--Celeste Holm), and its ending--stressing that forgiveness and tolerance are possible (when Green returns home and forgives his wife)--is very important, though he chose the wrong woman...
