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On the Waterfront (Special Edition)

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767804271
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 0767804279
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 2260
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1954

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Nr

Amazon.com essential video:
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




Rating: - Marlon Brando was definitely a contender.
Marlon Brando, who won an Oscar for this role, changed the face of acting in the mid 20th century. ... Read More

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Rating: - The greatest movie of all time
On the Waterfront has all the power that Brando was capable of, filmed in black and white the lighting ... Read More

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Rating: - A one-way ticket to palookaville
On the Waterfront begins on a shipping dock. The weather is raw and cold. A man emerges from a small wooden ... Read More

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Rating: - A film of major social importance; not to mention utterly fascinating to watch...
A staple for any fan of Marlon Brando, `On the Waterfront' is much more than a showcase for the actor's immense ... Read More

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Rating: - Among the greats
Probably the only good thing produced by "McCarthyism"; in the end it is the story of "ratting out" by Kazan, who ... Read More

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