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www.film.u-net.com - : A crusading indictment of corruption and those who, by keeping silent, abet such acts, On the Waterfront impresses through all-round superb performances. In the New York docks, the Union is all-powerful. A handful of crooks, led by the misnamed Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), hold workers and owners alike in a strangulation grip. If you're on the inside, like the brothers Terry (Marlon Brando) and Charley Malloy (Rod Steiger), then life is sweet. Kickbacks, bribes and cushy watches await. This edifice is, however, built upon the principle of divide-and-conquer. If someone causes Friendly trouble then his goons separate this unlucky mark from the herd, like lions hunting on the African plain. more...
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www.movie-vault.com - : It is said that great art is inspired by something personal, an experience, an emotion, a longing, or something from ''the heart''. If that is the case, it should come as no surprise that Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront is revered as a classic, as it was Kazan's statement to the world about the most significant event of his life. The sort of conflict he and screenwriter Budd Schulberg had endured during their lives was the perfect premise for a new kind of American film, and it served as a vehicle ripe for the method acting techniques mastered by Marlon Brando. more...
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filmfreakcentral.net - : On the Waterfront was directed by a legend at the peak of his prowess and performed by a Brando-led cast that has arguably never been better, not a one of them. Eva Marie Saint fully inhabits a grief-struck woman with an attraction developing for a bully of a man who, as the film opens, is a half-formed collection of regret and feckless brutality. Karl Malden is showy but effective as a blue-collar priest imploring Terry and his cohorts to betray union leader Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), and Rod Steiger is controlled and nuanced as Terry's union enforcer brother Charley. more...
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