I've read the play, and got quite a surprise when I saw the movie. The play is about anti-Semitism, and the central character is the lone Jew in the group. Maybe after "Gentlemen's Agreement" and with the rising civil rights awareness of the late 1940's the change made sense.
sharethe book, 'all the young men', is about anti-semitism, but when it was made into a movie in 1961, lo and behold, the protaganist was switched to a black man (sydney portier).
gentleman's agreement // watermelon man?????? or am i too far afield here?
be well.
Apparently the director felt that Christians and Jews look rather alike, and a movie would have more power if it were about whites and blacks.
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