On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront
by Elia Kazan

On the Waterfront
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Actor: Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Marlon Brando, Pat Henning, Rod Steiger
Director: Elia Kazan
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
Running Time: 108 minutes
Release Date: 1998-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Marlon Brando was definitely a contender.
Summary: 5 Stars

Marlon Brando, who won an Oscar for this role, changed the face of acting in the mid 20th century.

He's brilliant, inspired, and completely magnificent. And who hasn't heard, "I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am."

This movie is a classic, a movie that should be in everyones collection.

They just don't make them like Brando, anymore.

Summary of On the Waterfront

Marlon Brando's famous "I coulda been a contenda" speech is such a warhorse by now that a lot of people probably feel they've seen this picture already, even if they haven't. And many of those who have seen it may have forgotten how flat-out thrilling it is. For all its great dramatic and cinematic qualities, and its fiery social criticism, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is also one of the most gripping melodramas of political corruption and individual heroism ever made in the United States, a five-star gut-grabber. Shot on location around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey, in the mid-1950s, it tells the fact-based story of a longshoreman (Brando's Terry Malloy) who is blackballed and savagely beaten for informing against the mobsters who have taken over his union and sold it out to the bosses. (Karl Malden has a more conventional stalwart-hero role, as an idealistic priest who nurtures Terry's pangs of conscience.) Lee J. Cobb, who created the role of Willy Loman in Death of Salesman under Kazan's direction on Broadway, makes a formidable foe as a greedy union leader. --David Chute

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