Directed by Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront is an Academy Award winning drama starring Marlon Brando in one of his most iconic performances. The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, and portrays a dockworker torn between loyalty and conscience amid corruption and violence on the New York waterfront. Combining social realism with moral intensity, it remains a defining work of postwar American cinema.

Criterion Collection

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and social corruption, On the Waterfront follows Terrys deepening moral crisis as he must decide whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnnys right-hand man, Terrys brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

Från IMDB:
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicates victims.

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Version: : DVD (import)

Språk : English

EAN : 5051159001740

Label : Criterion Collection

Distributor : Criterion Collection

Inspelningsår : 1954

Regissör : Elia Kazan

imdb-rating : 8.1

Längd : 1h 48m

Cast : Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb