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On the Waterfront (1954)
Director: Elia Kazan
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Superb performances (none more so than Brando as Terry Malloy, the ex-boxer unwittingly entangled in corrupt union politics), a memorably colourful script by Budd Schulberg, and a sure control of atmosphere make this account of Brando's struggles against gangster Cobb's hold over the New York longshoremen's union powerful stuff. It is undermined, however, by both the religious symbolism (that turns Malloy not into a Judas but a Christ figure) and the embarrassing special pleading on behalf of informers, deriving presumably from the fact that Kazan and Schulberg named names during the McCarthy witch-hunts. Politics apart, though, it's pretty electrifying.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Elia Kazan
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Rudy Bond, John Heldabrand, John Hamilton, Martin Balsam full cast
Duration: 108 mins
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