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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 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 1954 Sales Rank: 2990 MPN: COLD78409D
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
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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.
He's brilliant, inspired, and completely magnificent. And who hasn't heard, "I coulda been ... Read More
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 and stength of the images together with the power of the story make this for me, the greatest movie ever. ... Read More
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 shack. He's bundled in the clothes of a poor common man--a laborer. His eyes are to the ground; his hands ... Read More
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 talent. No, `On the Waterfront' is a brilliant study of oppression, power and the struggle for control, ... Read More
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 testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming his friends.
- Marlon Brando was definitely a contender.