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On the Waterfront(Movie, 1954)

NR
| 1h 48min | Genres: Crime, Drama
On the WaterfrontRating: 4.0/5 (with 659659 votes)
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 Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. The musical score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The black-and-white film was inspired 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 among longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey. On the Waterfront was a cr... ()
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Awards & Nominations for On the Waterfront

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White National Board of Review: Top Ten Films National Board of Review Award for Best Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 3x Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-And-White Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score

About On the Waterfront

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: New Jersey
Plays in: New Jersey
Based on: "news article" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 28 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/28/1954 (World premiere: 06/22/1954)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"在江边"
"Hatoba"
Budget: 910,000 USD
Revenue: 9,600,000 USD (= 1,055%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:4490, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 04/10/2024