On the waterfront

On the waterfront

DVD - 2013

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.

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Subjects
Corruption > Drama.
Organized crime > Drama.
Clergy > Drama.
Stevedores > Labor unions > Corrupt practices > Drama.
New York (N.Y.) > Drama.
Gangster films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Gangster films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[United States] : Criterion Collection [2013]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Corporate Author
Image Entertainment (Firm) (-)
Other Authors
Marlon Brando (-), Rod Steiger, 1925-2002, Karl Malden, Elia Kazan
Edition
Three-DVD special edition
Item Description
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. This collection originally issued as a 3 disc set.
Special features: Alternate presentations in fullscreen and widescreen. Disc 1: commentary featuring Richard Schickel and Jeff Young; new conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones; Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary. Disc 2: new documentary on the making of the film; interviews.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (108 min. each) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, widescreen (1.66:1, 16:9) and full screen presentations; Dolby digital 5.1.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Awards
Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Actor, plus 6 others, in 1954.
Production Credits
Photographer, Boris Kaufman ; editor, Gene Milford ; music, Leonard Bernstein.
ISBN
9781604656602
  • disc 1. Feature in 1.66:1 aspect ratio
  • disc 2. Feature in 1.85:1 aspect ratio.
Review by Library Journal Review

Marlon Brando delivers a knockout as longshoreman Terry Malloy, a once-promising boxer who "coulda been a contender" if he hadn't taken a dive at the urging of his older brother (Rod Steiger). After falling for the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of a murdered informant he had fingered for talking with authorities about union corruption, Malloy redeems himself with the help of a socially conscious priest (Karl Malden), testifying against the mob-connected labor boss (Lee J. Cobb). With a bracingly potent script by Budd Schulberg (A Face in the Crowd), this restored 1954 Academy Award winner has never looked so good. VERDICT Interviews with two of the film's actors, movie critics, filmmakers, and others, plus an hour-long documentary on director Kazan, make this classic worth the upgrade and an odds-on contender for top-discs-of-the-year honors.-Jeff T. Dick, Davenport, IA (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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