Da journalisten Phil Green (Gregory Peck) skal til at skrive en dybdeborende artikel om den paradoksale antisemitisme i efterkrigstiden, beslutter han sig for at opleve den på sin egen krop, hvordan det er at være jødisk i midten af fyrrernes USA. Men det, der begyndte som en del af hans arbejde, leder pludselig til, at han oplever at blive afvist, negligeret, set ned på og selv i sit privatliv venter der ubehagelige overraskelser. Mesterinstruktøren Elia Kazan oplevede en af sit livs store triumfer, da hans idealistiske film i 1947 blev nomineret til hele 8 Oscars, hvoraf han selv fik én for bedste instruktion, én for bedste film og én til Celeste Holm for bedste birolle.
Runtime: 118 minutter
Udgivelsesdato 1947-11-11
Budget: $2,000,000.00
Indtægter: $7,800,000.00
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Just two years after Kazan's feature-film debut (and the end of WWII) came this firecracker which became up to that point his most successful film (although A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Boomerang would also garner Oscar nominations), and it's ironic that so shortly after a great war was won, mainly against racism and the killing of Jews overseas, Gregory Peck's Schuyler Green, in undercover work for an expose to satiate his new, New York City boss, discovers rampant anti-Semitism uncomfortably much closer to home. I love John Garfield's work, rather late in his short career, in the supporting role of Dave Goldman (he should have received an Oscar nomination as well). The film was very successful, taking in three trophies for eight tries altogether (for Best Director, Picture and Supporting Actress--Celeste Holm), and its ending--stressing that forgiveness and tolerance are possible (when Green returns home and forgives his wife)--is very important, though he chose the wrong woman...