"On the Waterfront" (1954)
"On the Waterfront" (1954)
Horizon Pictures
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses. - On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey."
Genre': Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release date: July 28, 1954
Director: Elia Kazan
Screenplay by: Budd Schulberg
Story by: Budd Schulberg
Suggested by: Newspaper series; "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Cinematography: Boris Kaufman
Edited by: Gene Milford
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Keegan
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Awards
- Best Picture
- Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Best Actress in a Supporting Role
- Best Director
- Best Writing, Story and Screenplay
- Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
- Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White
- Best Film Editing
- Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Best Actor - Drama
- Best Director
- Best Cinematography - Black and White
* © 1954 Columbia Pictures
Comments
What a transformation
It is so interesting to see the evolution of Marlon Brando as an actor and a man, from his early days in this epic to "Tango in Paris" and then "The Godfather" series.
Who could forget when he won an Academy Award and pioneered social consciousness among the Hollywood elite by sending a Native American Woman in his place to speak of the injustices being waged against her people!