MAY 24 · FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
On the Waterfront
A film by Elia Kazan
w/ Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
Rated NR
1hr 48min
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).
It’s a great film, in no small part due to Marlon Brando’s staggering performance and Leonard Bernstein’s blustering score.
Kat Sachs
Chicago Reader
MAY 24 · FILMS TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE
On the Waterfront
A film by Elia Kazan
w/ Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
Rated NR
1hr 48min
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).
It’s a great film, in no small part due to Marlon Brando’s staggering performance and Leonard Bernstein’s blustering score.
Kat Sachs
Chicago Reader
