Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)

Friendly Persuasion
Poster
Directed byWilliam Wyler
Screenplay byMichael Wilson
Based onThe Friendly Persuasion
1945 novel
by Jessamyn West
Produced byWilliam Wyler
StarringGary Cooper
Dorothy McGuire
Anthony Perkins
Richard Eyer
Robert Middleton
Phyllis Love
Mark Richman
Walter Catlett
Marjorie Main
CinematographyEllsworth Fredericks
Edited byRobert Swink
Edward A. Biery
Robert Belcher
Music byDimitri Tiomkin
Production
companies
William Wyler Productions
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
Distributed byAllied Artists (USA)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (foreign)
Release date
  • November 25, 1956 (1956-11-25)
Running time
137 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3 million[1][2]
Box office$8 million (as of 1960)[3]
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 novel The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West. The movie tells the story of a Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War and the way the war tests their pacifist beliefs.

The film received positive reviews, praised for its performances, but faced some criticism for inaccuracies in portraying Quaker views. It earned $4 million at the box office, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. Michael Wilson, the screenwriter, was initially uncredited due to being on the Hollywood blacklist but was later restored in 1996.[1]

Ronald Reagan gifted the film to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, symbolizing the pursuit of peaceful solutions to conflicts.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference variety was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Ballio, Tino (1987). United Artists: the company that changed the film industry, page 164. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin. ISBN 0-299-11440-6. Retrieved April 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference tcm was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Box office for Anthony Perkins in France at Box Office Story

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