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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

153 min · Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film

Popularity4.5/5
12-month trend14k2.6kExpand

12-month trend

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14k02025-09: 2,582 views2025-10: 2,708 views2025-11: 3,050 views2025-12: 3,244 views2026-01: 5,769 views2026-02: 2,860 views2026-03: 3,169 views2026-04: 7,915 views2026-05: 13,616 views2026-06: 4,020 views2026-07: 3,711 views2026-08: 5,482 views
Sep2.6kOct2.7kNov3.1kDec3.2kJan5.8kFeb2.9kMar3.2kApr7.9kMay14kJun4.0kJul3.7kAug5.5k

2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Nunnally Johnson

Cast

Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Fredric March, Marisa Pavan, Lee J. Cobb, Ann Harding, Gene Lockhart

The story

thumb|Jennifer Jones and Gregory Peck in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Ten years after the end of World War II Tom Rath is living in suburban Connecticut with his wife Betsy and three children. He is having difficulty supporting his family and his wife's ambitions on his writer's salary at a Manhattan nonprofit foundation. Tom is also dealing with post-traumatic stress syndrome in the form of frequent and disquieting flashbacks of his combat service as an Army captain in the European and Pacific theaters.

Catalogue themes and tags

2nd World War Veteran, Advancement, Appeal, Coming to Terms With The Past, Familie, Gewalt, Kampf, Single Mother, Suppressed Past, Unehelicher Sohn, Verhältnis, War Veteran, War Victim, Drama

Genres

Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film

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