Eva Marie Saint, James Westerfield, Karl Malden
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001
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June 18, 2009A longshoreman and ex-boxer has a crisis of conscience when the gangsters who control the union murder a fellow dock worker. On The Waterfront is one of those films that is almost famous for being famous. Nearly everyone can recite Brando's most quoted line, but this infamy means...( read more)
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May 3, 2009A Streetcar named desire wrote Brando?s name on the Oscar ? but it went to Humphrey Bogart for The African Queen. Brando was nominated again for Viva Zapata and Julius Caesar, but again went home empty handed. Brando?s craft was finally honoured for this brutal tale of New York D...( read more)
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March 3, 2009"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."
Classic film on the AFI top 100 list (#19).
Released in 1954, On the Waterfront is just as powerful today. Brilliant...( read more) -
January 7, 2009Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else?
When that philosophy comes up against the "I only care about me" philosophy, and especially if love's involved, you know something has gotta give. Not my all-time favorite Brando, but it's hard to knock the greatness of this mo
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September 10, 2008I think my expectations were set a little high for this, from the recommendations and comments I?d received from others. For that reason, I was a little disappointed, with this old classic.
Still an enjoyable film, but don?t think it quite reaches the pedestal it?s been put on. -
November 10, 2009Knowing Kazan's cooperation with McCarthy's Hollywood blacklistings shouldn't make me like this movie less, but for a movie with such political subtexts, it has to.
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October 9, 2009I absolutly loved this movie. Marlon was as good as always :) It had a charming story in it. :)
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October 4, 2009Huge dramatic themes are the foundation of On the Waterfront - redemption, corruption, the nature of morals and introspection. The subject matter is stripped down to its most simplistic form. This is a movie full of grit and physical violence that charts the struggle of an everym...( read more)
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August 17, 2008Wow. Is it just me, or do Marlon Brando's eyebrows bear a striking resemblance to the half-lidded make-up done for Frankenstein's monster, as played by Karloff?
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