Friendly Persuasion

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Indiana Quaker nurseryman Jess (Gary Cooper), secretly frustrated that his horse, Red Rover, is a poor racer, visits Ohio customer, the widow Hudspeth (Marjorie Main), his son left with her three daughters, when a business proposition emerges, in William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Union Major Harvey (Theodore Newton) recruiting at the Quaker meeting, approaching Caleb (John Smith), Josh (Anthony Perkins), his father Jess (Gary Cooper) and Elder Purdy (Richard Hale), in William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Lured into the wrestling exhibition at their Indiana county fair, Quakers Caleb (John Smith) and Josh (Anthony Perkins), whose parents Jess (Gary Cooper) and Eliza (Dorothy McGuire) come to the rescue, in William Wyler's Friendly Persuasion, 1956.

Director William Wyler establishing the Quaker idyll, Richard Eyer as young "Jess" talking about the goose and his powerful mother Eliza (Dorothy McGuire), in Friendly Persuasion, 1956, also starring Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins.

Gary Cooper plays a Quaker whose pacifism is tested during the Civil War in Friendly Persuasion, 1956, directed by William Wyler.