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Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 American Civil War drama film produced and directed by William Wyler. It stars Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Phyllis Love, Mark Richman, Walter Catlett and Marjorie Main.
Friendly Persuasion: Directed by William Wyler. With Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer. The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
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Academy Award winner Gary Cooper stars as a father trying ...more. A Quaker family's idyllic life is torn by the family members' strong, conflicting beliefs--nonviolence, justice, truth and ...
A peaceful Quaker family's sanctity is tested during the Civil War.
In 1862, in Southern Indiana, the Quakers Jess Birdwell, his wife and Minister Eliza, their teenage son Joshua, their teenage daughter Mattie and their young son Little Jess live a peaceful life in their farm. Eliza opposes to the war and they follow the stringent principles of their religious sect. But when the rebel Southern troops threaten ...
The patriarch of a peace-loving Quaker family, Jess Birdwell (Gary Cooper), begins to question his pacifist values when the Civil War moves toward his close-knit Indiana...
