Was Karl Malden ever fortunate enough to receive top billing in a feature film? He always seems to be playing second fiddle. Nonetheless, Malden really pulls his weight along with Eva-Marie Saint in another teaming of Kazan and Brando in this drama about couldabeens and wouldabee...( read more)
Best Brando Ever! Not to mention most powerful Elia Kazan ever. This is the movie that defines Brando's movie persona forever. He went from being underrated(Streetcar Named Desire), miscast(Viva Zapata!), robotic(Julius Caesar), to being an overnight superstar. I also like The Wi...( read more)
Great dialouge, acting and story. Marlon Brando at one of his finest moments.
Yankee dockworkers in the 50s unite against mobsters. Not a movie I can easily identify with, and I find the style of film-making in that era both boring and irritating.
Brando is great, as are the rest of the cast, but I find the plot to be fairly predictable and the ending unrealistic and too light. The score was awfully manipulative as well. Another gripe I have doesn't relate to the quality of the film is that Kazan tries to justify his act...( read more)
this was the first movie i saw that actualy live dupt o every single review i had read about it. this moive is a masterpiece.
This movie is very complicated. I had to stop it in the middle of it (to my friends great annoyance) and just think about the situation.
WHAT TO SAY. SEE IT. Hudson River's HOBOKEN, NJ, waterfront IN 1952 (?) approx. Ah, Karl Malden. Great story of trying to get the movie made in the Elia Kazan biography. Funded by some sort of coloful hollywood character who took a chance on the script.
One of the finest flics in Moviedom. Brando shows why he was one of the world's rare pre-eminent actors, a select crowd. Woof!
absolute classic
tremendous performance by marlon brando and the ensemble .
great screenplay with hard to forget dialogues
one of the best movies i have seen
No matter how insignificant you feel, you can be important to a lot of people
The perfect movie. Perfect cast, directing, writing and score. Flawless.
Vintage Brando. This movie is perfectly paced and injected with plenty of action, a little romance and an excellent storyline.
Elia Kazan used this film as his argument on why he got some people blacklisted. It is a tautly directed movie, and brilliantly acted.
This is Brando's best performance and Elia Kazan's greatest film, and both of those are saying more than a lot.
One of the best films ever made. Nothing like a movie with a tough priest! One of Karl Malden's finest performances, and Marlon Brando is great!
They just don't seem to make too many like this one any more. And in the 50's, you got about 30 of these gems. Oh yeah, Elia Kazan was still directing back then.
wow.... you just dont get em any more lol.. great film... with some get line.. really well written and performed
I hate mob movies. I don't find that whole lifestyle fascinating like many people do... the idiots should know they're going to end up dead and just get away. having said that, this one wasn't as awful as others I've seen.
Now, that's some fabulous acting by an amazing man. "I coulda been a contender! I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am!"
An American masterpiece. Brando in his prime. Hollywood began its transformation to grittier more realistic filmmaking here.
Brando completely and utterly breaks your heart. Great acting, directing, story, and dialogue. Everyone must see this movie.
If you haven't see this, you should leave this website and never return because you obvious prefer dreck over a work of art. And this film is a work of art. It is also a stupendously affecting human and family drama, a political statement, and a suspense tale. Brando's performanc...( read more)
Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.
Marlon Brando give one of the best performance of all time.
Again, one of the best movies ever made. Marlon Brando was suprisingly good.
like a bunch of other kazan films, its like a play and it relies on the amazing performances. luckily, this happens to be a masterwork story, so between the two, kazan stages one of the ebst films of all time.
Wow I don't know yet but Brando is this movie may be better than Stewart in Mr. Smith. An excellent movie and I'm partly ashamed it took me so long to see it. Parts of it almost brought me to tears, the classic cab scene, the dead pigeon scene, and the end. An amazing movie and o...( read more)
Brando at his finest. Based on true events plus Carl Malden's battling priest is excellent.
amazing story. terry was such a fascinating character, brought to life flawlessly by marlon brando. this movie has everything...drama, romance, and even some laughs. so much attention has been brought to the conversation between the two brothers, terry and charlie, which i agree ...( read more)
