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    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)

    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)Director: Elia Kazan
    Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
    Studio: Sony Pictures
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $19.94
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    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 reviews
    Sales Rank: 1384

    Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Special Edition, NTSC
    Language: English (Original Language)
    Rating: NR (Not Rated)
    Region: 99
    Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 108 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
    Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

    MPN: 78409
    ISBN: 0767804279
    UPC: 043396784093
    EAN: 9780767804271
    ASIN: B00003CXBU

    Theatrical Release Date: 1954
    Release Date: October 23, 2001
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    Product Description
    An ex-fighter is caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.
    Genre: Feature Film-Drama
    Rating: NR
    Release Date: 23-OCT-2001
    Media Type: DVD


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    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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    5 out of 5 stars The best of Marlo Brando   January 24, 2010
    Jacqueline (Washington DC)
    On the Waterfront is a real classic film. The interwoven story between the shipyards workers and the Union held by a group of exploiting mafioso bosses is at the heart of the movie. It deals with questions of conscience, of right and wrong, of retribution and seeks to get the viewer involved actively. It represents an era of great difficulty for the masses and the impossibility to extricate oneself from the mafia's stranglehold on workers. It takes an accident to start unrolling the entanglement in which all were.


    2 out of 5 stars Let down by expectations   October 23, 2009
    H. Schneider (window seat)
    1 out of 3 found this review helpful

    After a recent walk through the world of Kazan, reading T.Williams' plays, plus his memoirs, plus Kazan's memoirs, and then watching some of the Williams movies, not all by Kazan, and some of Kazan's other films, after non-Williams texts, I had, for unclear reasons, postponed watching the Waterfront until now. (Maybe just because nobody in this house wanted to watch it with me. Despite Brando. Which is surprising, as all other inhabitants here are female, in homo sapiens as well as in house cat species.)

    The Kazan experience prior to the Waterfront exposure was mixed. I am not sure I think Kazan was such a great director. His scenes are frequently awkward, his actors often move like zombies, his pathos is most of the time over the board. Sometimes he was lucky: the Streetcar movie is great, because it is a great play and he was lucky with the cast. Brando was at home there. Malden was ridiculous as usual, but it did not do much damage there.
    I watched Kazan's fiasco with East of Eden, which, to me, is one of the worst Oscar winners that I ever watched. Unbearably ridiculous. James Dean was unbelievably unbelievable. (The book is useless, but the movie is endlessly worse. I say this as a Steinbeck fan.)

    Now I found myself `alone at home' and decided to watch the Waterfront. Let me come up with my version of the truth right away: this is not in line with my idea of great cinema. It is cheap melodrama with a completely over-acting Brando and a ridiculous Malden. Cobb is ok as mobster boss, but those roles are easy. Eve Sainte Marie is actually quite good as pure Irish maiden, she is coming close to saving the film for me, but not quite, after all.

    Another complaint: Bernstein's music is totally indequate for the subject! This whole thing is kitsch!

    Apart from that, one needs to see the questionable role of the film in the political scenery of the time. After all, Kazan himself had just `talked', so it was in his interest to portrait `talking' in a positive light. The enemy in the film is the trade union, which has been usurped by the Irish mob. I am quite sure, or rather, I will readily believe, that this kind of situation has happened in real life, but I am not willing to accept a stereotypical satanification of the unions as just `social drama'. This is also political propaganda, and it works on the antenna of the audience. Unions equal mob. Not seeing that dimension of the reality of the film would be naive.





    4 out of 5 stars Walk like a man   October 18, 2009
    bernie (Arlington, Texas)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    This is a movie about pidgins, both literally and figuratively. Local priest (Karl Malden) goes up against cabal.

    This might be entertainment for some and was a type of movie art that came and passed. This presentation is a good variant of the genre. People that enjoy "Citizen Kane" will enjoy this film. The acting is touted as great, however everyone acted the same as it is a 1954 style; if it is so good out of its time and place there would be movies like this today. I suggest that a better variant is "Funeral in Berlin".

    For people that look at other film dimensions the music is over the top heavy handed. The one plus is that the music (Leonard Bernstein) usually does not compete with the dialog. Unfortunately the one exception is the "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender." statement where all the violins break out next the rush of horns and whatnot.

    I will not go into detail on the movie as there is just the chance you have only heard about this movie and haven't seen it yet, but be prepared for stool pigeons and dead pigeons.

    After 50 plus years the film is sort of out of place. So to gain a good perspective on why it is so popular you will need to watch the commentaries and other DVD extras. Then re-watch the movie.

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    5 out of 5 stars Being A Contender   October 3, 2009
    Lynn Ellingwood (Webster, NY United States)
    Marlon Brando starred in one of his least pretentious roles in this film about a dock worker in NYC who decides to fight the corrupt officials who run the docks. Eva Marie Saint plays the young woman whose brother is murdered by them. Of course, Marlon who had something to do with the brother's murder, and Eva Marie fall in love but Karl Malden as the priest keeps it on a higher plane. The moral struggle against corrupt gangs who intimidate and murder to influence the community and the struggle to live a moral life is a classic tale which carries a powerful whop!


    5 out of 5 stars "D and D. Deaf and Dumb"   August 7, 2009
    Philip W. Henry (Rialto, CA)
    3 out of 3 found this review helpful

    On the Waterfront (Special Edition)

    On The Waterfront

    Elia Kazan's classic 1954 film "On The Waterfront" isn't just great drama; it's serious social commentary as well. Based on the book by Budd Schulberg, "On the Waterfront" is the story of ex prize fighter Terry Molloy. Terry, who famously claims "I coulda been a contender," has lost a few brain cells along the way, and now hangs out on the wharf where his brother Charley The Gent (Rod Steiger) looks out for him in Johnny Friendly's (Lee J. Cobb's) crooked empire.
    Terry is drawn into the hostile and dangerous game of intrigue when his brother pressures him to spy on the Parish Priest played by Karl Malden, who is organizing a rival gang to take on the hoodlums. Terry says he doesn't want to be a "stoolie" for Johnny. "On the docks we've always been "D" and "D" - Deaf and Dumb."
    Considering Kazan was being pilloried in Hollywood for naming names before the House Un-American Activities Committee, his cinematic treatment of informing on colleagues has always been controversial. With the death in August, 2009, of Budd Schulberg at age 95, the story has come full circle. It's difficult in these days to comprehend the paranoia of the post-WWII world, when Russia was the devil, and people saw Communists under every bed. The pressure on Hollywood was tremendous. The LA Times quoted Schulberg as saying: "I was interested in social conditions on the waterfront and drawing a truthful story, not in justifying my position."
    The cast of this classic is uniformly good: Steiger, Cobb, Malden, the "newcomer" Eva Marie Saint, and the truly outstanding character actors and non-professionals who play the dockworkers... street-hardened, hard-drinking, and accustomed to playing by the rules of the docks. The Score by Leonard Bernstein is dramatic and powerful, and Kazan's direction takes on the gritty, noir character of the docks.
    It's not surprising "On The Waterfront" garnered eight Academy Awards in 1954 - for Best Picture, Best Director (Kazan); Best Actor (Brando); Best Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint); Best Screenplay (Schulberg), and four nominations.

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