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3,051,784 admissions (France) [4] 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. The screenplay by Michael Wilson was adapted from the 1945 ...
A classic film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire as a Quaker couple in Indiana during the Civil War. The film explores their pacifist beliefs, their children's love stories, and their conflicts with the community and the Confederate soldiers.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1956-11-25
A classic Western film directed by William Wyler, starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire as a Quaker family in the Civil War era. See the full list of actors, writers, producers and other crew members on IMDb.
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 ...
A Quaker family's idyllic life is torn by the family members' strong, conflicting beliefs--nonviolence, justice, truth and respect for individuality--as each...
Friendly Persuasion (1956) -- (Movie Clip) She Won't Be Passed Indiana Quaker nurseryman Jess (Gary Cooper), secretly frustrated that his horse, Red Rover, is a poor racer, visits Ohio customer, the widow Hudspeth (Marjorie Main), his son left with her three daughters, when a business proposition emerges, in William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion ...
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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 community. Meanwhile, Jess ...
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