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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.
A 1956 film directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper and Dorothy McGuire as a Quaker couple facing the dilemma of pacifism and war. Based on a novel by Jessamyn West, the film explores the themes of family, love, and conscience in a turbulent time.
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- Drama, Family, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1956-11-25
181M subscribers. Subscribed. 283. 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) focuses on a peaceful family of Quakers who are thrust into the Civil War when a band of Confederates known as Morgan's Raiders threatens their town.
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...
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- Gary Cooper
- William Wyler
- Drama
Friendly Persuasion, American dramatic film, released in 1956, that depicts how the American Civil War disrupts the lives of a pacifist Quaker family. Jess Birdwell (played by Gary Cooper) and his wife, Eliza (Dorothy McGuire), are content in their lives as Quaker farmers living in southern Indiana.
A film adaptation of Jessamyn West's novel about a Quaker family in the Civil War era. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, and other crew members who worked on this classic movie.
