Prejudice (1949)

Directed by

Edward L. Cahn

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

58 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A white Protestant man thinks he is open-minded but feels uneasy when a Jewish coworker is promoted. Over the course of the film, he and others come to see their own biases. The story argues that religious faith can overcome prejudice.

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What happens

Prejudice is a 1949 American black-and-white drama film produced by the Protestant Film Commission (PFC) and Edmund L. Dorfmann Productions. Directed by Edward L. Cahn, it stars David Bruce, Mary Marshall, Tommy Ivo, and Bruce Edwards. The story centers on an American Protestant man who believes he is tolerant of other religions and nationalities, but feels threatened by his Jewish colleague. As the film delves into the reasons for prejudice, he and other main characters realize that they are both perpetrators and victims of intolerance. The film concludes that only with faith in Christ, who loved all men equally, can prejudice be eliminated. This was the first PFC production to be released theatrically; it was also distributed to 30,000 denominational churches and schools, religious clubs, and unions in the United States and Canada. The $100,000 production budget was funded by 17 Protestant denominations and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The film was said to be the "most popular" of the PFC's productions. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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