Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Directed by William Wyler
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?
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Reminding me just as much of the Quaker clan in Friendly Persuasion (1956), Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan’s effective screenplay, as well as Garfield’s understated performance, provides an extreme counterbalance to the cynicism and weariness that pervades most modern war pictures.
Garfield’s Doss uncannily recalls Anthony Perkins’s pacifist performance in Friendly Persuasion.
Everyone speaks as if they had studied "Friendly Persuasion."