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...nobody's surprise, Gentleman's Agreement was named the year's best picture. It also won Elia Kazan an Oscar for his direction. In accepting the Oscar for the film, 20th Century-Fox's long-memoried Darryl Zanuck firmly reminded everyone: "This makes up for an earlier disappointment . . . still a picture of which I am proud, Wilson...
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...Pictures. Two Hollywood pictures that made most lists of the year's best ten-Director Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire (RKO Radio) and Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox)-were also the first forthright attacks on anti-Semitism by the movies, which, in Groucho Marx's phrase, had previously dared to criticize only the man-eating shark. The New York Film Critics voted Gentleman's Agreement the year's best film (9 to 7 over Britain's Great Expectations...
...high on most lists (Manhattan's critics put To Live in Peace in a special category as the year's best foreign-language film). Also listed by most reviewers: Odd Man Out (British), P'ox's Miracle on 34th Street and Boomerang! (also directed by Elia Kazan...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...