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On the Waterfront

  • Film
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Recommended
On the Waterfront
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Time Out says

5 out of 5 stars

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.

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Release Details

  • Duration:108 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Elia Kazan
  • Screenwriter:Budd Schulberg
  • Cast:
    • Rod Steiger
    • Marlon Brando
    • Pat Henning
    • Karl Malden
    • Leif Erickson
    • John Heldabrand
    • Eva Marie Saint
    • John Hamilton
    • Martin Balsam
    • Lee J Cobb
    • Rudy Bond
    • James Westerfield
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