Director : William Wyler
Release Date : 25 November 1956 (USA)
Genre : Drama, War, Western
Cast : Gary Cooper as Jess Birdwell, Dorothy McGuire as Eliza Birdwell, Anthony Perkins as Josh Birdwell, Richard Eyer as Little Jess, Robert Middleton as Sam Jordan, Phyllis Love as Martha ‘Mattie’ True Birdwell, Peter Mark Richman as Gardner ‘Gard’ Jordan (as Mark Richman), Walter Catlett as Prof. Waldo Quigley, Richard Hale as Purdy (violent Quaker), Joel Fluellen as Enoch (black hired hand), Theodore Newton as Maj. Harvey (recruiter in meetinig), John Smith as Caleb Cope (wrestling Quaker), Edna Skinner as Opal Hudspeth, Marjorie Durant as Pearl Hudspeth (pipe-smoking woodcutter in braids), Frances Farwell as Ruby Hudspeth
Plot : The fairy-tale of a set of Quakers inside Indiana inside 1862. Their religous sect is strongly hostile violence with war… more |
Run Time : 137 min
Country : USA
MPAA :
Language : English
Filming Locations : Bidwell Park – Manzanita Avenue, Chico, California, USA
Company : Allied Artists Pictures
Trivia : Originally unleash without screenwriting credit owing to blacklisting of Michael Wilson; credits superseded inside 1996.
Goofs :
Tag Lines : You’ll love SAMANTHA, THE GOOSE! (re-release print ad – all caps)
WHAT FUN YOU’LL HAVE…AND WHAT A FAMILY! YOU’LL FEEL AS IF YOU ARE A PART OF IT…OR WOULD LIKE TO BE! (re-release print ad – all caps)
Try FRIENDLY PERSUASION: It’s Powerful!
When You Looked At Jess Birdwell YOU LOOKED UP
Jess is a big man and he walks the Indiana earth in a big way… a man of few words and many strengths… a man born with the gift of laughter and the knack for love, a power for good, a man who doesn’t hold with killing. But now Jess faces a big decision — to keep faith with what he lives by — or to fight for what he loves… Only so great a theme could make so great a motion picture!
Anthony Perkins, the most exciting screen discovery since James Dean!
Pat Boone, the sensational Dot Recording artist, can be heard singing the big hit title-song, "Friendly Persuasion"
Plot Summary : The fairy-tale of a set of Quakers inside Indiana inside 1862. Their religous sect is strongly against violence also war. It’s not effortless since each other to converge the schemes of their religion inside existence on the esoteric hand once Southern troops elapse the part they are inside actual trouble. Should they fight, no matter their diplomatic attitide?
Watch Trailer Online for Anthony Perkins Friendly Persuasion (1956)- trailer
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