“Gentleman’s Agreement,” a film dealing with anti-Semitism, was yesterday voted the best English-speaking film of 1947 by the New York Film Critics. The motion picture, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Laura Hobson, was directed by Elia Kazan.
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