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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
EAN: 9780767804271
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0767804279
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 78409
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1954
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
An ex-fighter is caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 23-OCT-2001
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com essential video:
Marlon 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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Presents many great stars in the prime of their careers--Brando, Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint (in her first starring role.) Yet, in the context of contemporary standards. the plotline is clearly dated, and the acting somewhat histrionic and stereotypical. As a result, the viewing experience is just not as good as one might expect given this film's classic status.
Rating:  -
On the Waterfront is a real classic film. The interwoven story between the shipyards workers and the Union held by a group of exploiting mafioso bosses is at the heart of the movie. It deals with questions of conscience, of right and wrong, of retribution and seeks to get the viewer involved actively. It represents an era of great difficulty for the masses and the impossibility to extricate oneself from the mafia's stranglehold on workers. It takes an accident to start unrolling the entanglement ... Read More
Rating:  -
After a recent walk through the world of Kazan, reading T.Williams' plays, plus his memoirs, plus Kazan's memoirs, and then watching some of the Williams movies, not all by Kazan, and some of Kazan's other films, after non-Williams texts, I had, for unclear reasons, postponed watching the Waterfront until now. (Maybe just because nobody in this house wanted to watch it with me. Despite Brando. Which is surprising, as all other inhabitants here are female, in homo sapiens as well as in house cat species.) ... Read More
Rating:  -
This is a movie about pidgins, both literally and figuratively. Local priest (Karl Malden) goes up against cabal.
This might be entertainment for some and was a type of movie art that came and passed. This presentation is a good variant of the genre. People that enjoy "Citizen Kane" will enjoy this film. The acting is touted as great, however everyone acted the same as it is a 1954 style; if it is so good out of its time and place there would be movies like this today. I suggest that a better ... Read More
Rating: -
Marlon Brando starred in one of his least pretentious roles in this film about a dock worker in NYC who decides to fight the corrupt officials who run the docks. Eva Marie Saint plays the young woman whose brother is murdered by them. Of course, Marlon who had something to do with the brother's murder, and Eva Marie fall in love but Karl Malden as the priest keeps it on a higher plane. The moral struggle against corrupt gangs who intimidate and murder to influence the community and the struggle to live a moral ... Read More
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