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On The Waterfront
1954
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the .. Read more
| Starring | Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger |
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| Director | Elia Kazan |
| Genres | Drama |
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On The Waterfront
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings. Terry intends to keep his mouth shut and his job safe. But when Edie (Eva Marie-Saint), the dead man's beautiful sister, comes to town, he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union and his loyalty to Edie.
| Starring | Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Martin Balsam, Leif Erickson, Fred Gwynne, Pat Hingle, Nehemiah Persoff, John Hamilton, James Westerfield, Don Blackman, Rudy Bond, Jere Delaney, Tony |
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| Director | Elia Kazan |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 43 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 43 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Dec 2001 Blu-ray: not available Production year: 1954 |
| Format | DVD |
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Using minor contract players Warren Douglas and Joan Winfield, Warner Bros kept this B mystery unusually brief, making it ideal to accompany its lengthier main features of the time. Nonetheless, this dim-witted tale of wartime espionage in a Pacific Coast navy yard turns into an endurance test before the traitor responsible for murdering the inventor of a vital new thermostat is exposed. The script reworked a stage play that was filmed to better effect five years earlier as the Boris Karloff vehicle The Invisible Menace.
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Superb performances (none more so than Brando as Terry Malloy, the ex-boxer unwittingly entangled in corrupt union... read more on Time Out
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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
And the 'Greatest Actor Ever (Past, present and future)' Ocar goes to.... Marlon Brando
Most people hate Brando in this role and call him nicknames such as 'mumble mouth' and what not. However, these criticisms are all rubbish. Brando easily confirms his status as the greatest actor of his generation and beyond. He highlights his ability to convey the paradoxical meaning in a character through Terry Malloy in such a way, that we as the audience, are almost drawn into the film. It is as though Brando is expressing his every thought aloud to us. Again, he improvises in much of the scenes, including the famous 'I could've been contender' speech which was all Brando and not directed by Kazan. A true classic masterpiece... hate to say it... but mainly due to Brando himself in his unforgettable role as Terry Malloy.
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Mesmerising....
performance by Marlon Brando in one of his best films. Although the films looks slightly creaky around the edges you can still see the sheer power of Brando's screen presence shining through, and he is ably supported by the other cast members.
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The Wrestler
- 12 Jan 2009
Washed up fighters make great movie characters. Think of Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, Marlon Brando’s “I coulda been a contender” speech in On the Waterfront, Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby and Stacy Keach, pissing blood in John Huston’s underrated Fat City. Add to their ranks Randy “The Ram” Robinson. The Ram isn’t a boxer, but he’s played by one: Mickey Rourke boxed before he became an actor, and went back to the ring... Read more
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On The Waterfront - BLU-RAY Version
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ...
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On The Waterfront
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the ...
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