On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
by Elia Kazan
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Actor: Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Marlon Brando, Pat Henning, Rod SteigerDirector: Elia Kazan
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Editor: Gene Milford
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Writer: Budd Schulberg
Writer: Malcolm Johnson
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Not all unions were MOB run
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie has some great acting in it.
But looking back, it may have been somewhat
misguided as the "union toughs" were actually important in
resisting the "management toughs" of hired thugs and security guards
used to break unions.In many states unions were broken and the workers suffered at the will of management.
The coal mines of West Virginia are probably one outstanding
historical example with black lung disease and long hours, bad safety conditions and no real representation of workers.
The dock workers and teamsters were MOB run, but many others unions in the trades suffered from "piece work" and union breaking tactics , even to the present.
We don't picture the Marlon Brando of this story as being a corporate
stooge in breaking unionism, but that may have been the ultimate result?
Summary of On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award? winner for Best Film. Ex-fighter Terry Malloy (Brando) could have been a contender but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. Terry is guilt-stricken however when he lures a rebellious worker to his death. But it takes the love of Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint) the dead man's sister to show Terry how low he has fallen. When his crooked brother Charley the Gent (Rod Steiger) is brutally murdered for refusing to kill him Terry battles to crush Friendly's underworld empire. Directed by Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire) and written by Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?) this unforgettable drama about Terry's redemption is among the most acclaimed of all films.System Requirements: Running Time 107 Min Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?043396784093 Manufacturer No:?78409Marlon Brando's famous "I coulda been a contenda" speech is such a warhorse by now that a lot of people probably feel they've seen this picture already, even if they haven't. And many of those who have seen it may have forgotten how flat-out thrilling it is. For all its great dramatic and cinematic qualities, and its fiery social criticism, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is also one of the most gripping melodramas of political corruption and individual heroism ever made in the United States, a five-star gut-grabber. Shot on location around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s, it tells the fact-based story of a longshoreman (Brando's Terry Malloy) who is blackballed and savagely beaten for informing against the mobsters who have taken over his union and sold it out to the bosses. (Karl Malden has a more conventional stalwart-hero role, as an idealistic priest who nurtures Terry's pangs of conscience.) Lee J. Cobb, who created the role of Willy Loman in Death of Salesman under Kazan's direction on Broadway, makes a formidable foe as a greedy union leader. --David Chute
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