Грегори Пек влюбляет в себя. И гений Казан.
И несмотря на то, что они не сработались, фильм все же отличный.



Darryl F. Zanuck felt the time was right to bring up the subject of anti-Semitism following the full disclosure of what had actually gone on in the Nazi death camps.

When other studio chiefs, who were mostly Jewish, heard about the making of this film, they asked the producer not to make it.
They feared its theme of anti-Semitism would simply stir up a hornet's nest and preferred to deal with the problem quietly.
Not only did production continue, but a scene was subsequently included that mirrored that confrontation.

The movie was Fox's top-grossing picture of 1948.

Laura Z. Hobson wrote her novel after Senator John Rankin's anti-Semitic comments were applauded in Congress.
It was then serialized in Cosmopolitan from November 1946 to February 1947, immediately causing quite a stir.
This prompted Darryl F. Zanuck (who was one of the few studio heads who was not Jewish) to snap up the novel's rights.

Shooting started in late May 1947 and took 3 months. The film opened in November of that year to overwhelming critical favor.

Despite winning an Oscar for his direction, Elia Kazan revealed in a later interview that he was never fond of this movie, feeling that it lacked passion on his part and he thought that the romance was too forced.

John Garfield was blacklisted, taken off the blacklist and put back on it again and it was believed that it was the stress of these experiences which led to the heart attack that killed him at the age of 39.

Gregory Peck did not get along with director Elia Kazan. Kazan told the press he was very disappointed with Peck's performance and the two men never worked together again.