Friendly Persuasion (1956)

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Friendly Persuasion is a civil war film of 1956, starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Phyllis Love. The script was adapted by Michael Wilson of Jessamine West 's novel "Friendly Persuasion" supervised by William Weil in 1945. This movie tells the story of the Indiana Quaker family during the American Civil War and the trial of their pacifist faith. This film was filmed in Jennings County, Indiana in 1862. Jess Birdwell is a farmer and patriarch of the Birdwell family and Quaker's religious belief conflicts with love for his world music and horse racing fun. Jess's wife, Dorothy McGuire, is a Quaker priest and has an unwavering attitude of refusing to participate in deep religious beliefs and violent cases. Jess's daughter Mattie (Phyllis Love) wants to stay at Quaker, but I am in love with a handsome cavalry officer officer, Gard Jordan (Peter Mark Richman), contrary to her mother's wishes.

In the early days of the Civil War, based on Jessamyn West's best-selling novel, friendly persuasion began in southern Indiana. Gary Cooper plays Jack Birdwell, the patriarch of the Quaker family who does not believe in war. Bourwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wants to stick to his family's pacifism, but if he does not apply for military service he is afraid to prove to be a coward . Josh joined the family guards. And that made him anxious about his mother, Dorothy McGuire. But Jess Birdwell realized that his son had to follow his instructions. Josh proved his courage when Josh was injured in a rebel attack, and because he did not kill the southern soldiers without opportunities and just reasons, the elderly Birdwell had his religious calling He was faithful to him. If that is true, wisest heart will win because there is no such scenario in the final version. The story was adapted to a two hour TV pilot film in 1975.