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Name: On the Waterfront
Released: 1954-10-1
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning

On the Waterfront

NR
1h 48m
1954

99%

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Marlon Brando stars as Terry Malloy, a washed up prizefighter who, through the influence of his brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), a lawyer for a corrupt waterfront union, is employed as an errand boy for the mob. After luring a fellow dockworker and friend to his death to keep him from testifying against labor boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), the appeals of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and a crusading priest (Karl Malden) awaken Terry's guilty conscience. Despite a brutal beating at the hands of Friendly's goons, love prompts Terry to seek redemption by cooperating with a crime commission's investigation into the corrupt waterfront union.

Director:

Elia Kazan

Producer:

Sam Spiegel, S.P. Eagle

Cast:

Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Eva Marie Saint

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

99%

Critics Consensus: With his electrifying performance in Elia Kazan's thought-provoking, expertly constructed melodrama, Marlon Brando redefined the possibilities of acting for film and helped permanently alter the cinematic landscape.

Reviews

Solzy at the Movies

Danielle Solzman

On the Waterfront is a film that would change cinema for years to come.

Malloy makes an unlikely proxy for Kazan, though. A former boxer with the eyes of a showgirl, he was the role of a lifetime for Brando, whose Method-schooled blend of machismo and vulnerability redefined acting for a generation.

The supporting cast is wonderful, but it’s Brando who lights up every part of this film.

The performances in the film have a magnificent intelligence and strength, shaped and guided incomparably by Kazan, a master of Broadway and Hollywood.

It has a persuasiveness of characterization, for the most part, rare on the American screen, not because actors are lacking to convey it but because it is so seldom elicited either by their material or their directors.

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Genre:Drama
Release Date:October 1, 1954
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
5.1

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