While this is not one of Gregory Peck's more famous films, it sure deserves to be-particularly for its deep, complex and amazingly adult plot. Title (Brazil): "Homem do Terno Cinzento" ("Man in the Gray Suit") The story has many subplots and one memorable character, Judge Bernstein, performed by Lee J. Tom Rath sometimes is reluctant, thinking in the safety of his family first, but always takes the right decision supported by his beloved wife Betsy.
"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" is a realistic and humanistic drama about choices of an insecure man with a war trauma that frequently haunts him. Further, he learns that he has a son with Maria and she is very needy and he needs to choose between telling the truth to Betsy or keep the secret. Soon he needs to decide whether he will be a dedicated executive or 9 to 5 fellows. Meanwhile Tom is hired to work as public relation of a television network and is assigned to write a speech to the owner, Ralph Hopkins (Frederic March). When Tom inherits his grandmother's house, her former servant claims the real state but using forged document. Tom is tormented by the traumatic experience in war, where he killed seventeen persons including a young German soldier and he occasionally recalls his love affair with the Italian Maria (Marisa Pavan) in 1945. However, they have financial difficulties and Tom commutes every day to Manhattan to work in a charitable organization receiving a low salary. In Connecticut, the former WWII officer Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) and his wife Betsy (Jennifer Jones) are happily married middle class couple with three children.
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