David Clark, Estelle Hemsley, Jack Warden
A soldier returns from the Korean war disenfranchised and alienated from his family on account of his brother's death in battle -- for which he is blamed -- and finds a life on the railroad yards of N...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
Stats: 26 reviews
While not a bad movie, you could tell it was trying to cop from On the Waterfront a bit. Poitier's character is impossible but it all somehow works.
good acting. good performances. simple story. i guess solid is a good way to describe it.
A interesting study of two men who are friends and work on the railroad yards. simple enough, but one is white(Cassavettes)and one is African American(Poitier) and it's the 1950s. They get along and he meets Poitier's family, but things get ugly when Poitier is killed on the job,...( read more)
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