Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Wilson from the 1945 novel The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West, and was directed by William Wyler. The film tells the story of a pacifist Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War. The father of the family is gradually converted to supporting the war.

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Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Wilson from the 1945 novel The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West, and was directed by William Wyler. The film tells the story of a pacifist Quaker family in southern Indiana during the American Civil War. The father of the family is gradually converted to supporting the war.

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