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- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
Summary Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award winning Best Film as Ex-fighter Terry Malloy, who could have been a contender but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. [Sony]
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
- 1954
- Approved
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 48 m
On the Waterfront
8.7
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Summary Marlon Brando gives one of the screen's most electrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award winning Best Film as Ex-fighter Terry Malloy, who could have been a contender but now toils for boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. [Sony]
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Written By: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Outstanding performances are turned in by Karl Malden in the role of a priest who makes the waterfront characters his particular charge, by Lee J. Cobb, as the big bully who bosses the boys, by Rod Steiger, John Hamilton and a couple of well-known pugilists, Tony Galento and Tami Mauriello.
This brutal, violently realistic drama, set against the sordid background of the New York waterfront, packs a terrific wallop that results in topflight entertainment.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 211 User Ratings
8.7
89% Positive
188 Ratings
188 Ratings
8% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
3% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 211 User Ratings
8.7
89% Positive
188 Ratings
188 Ratings
8% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
3% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Unbelievable acting, you forget you are watching a ****’s so real I feel it’s happening right in front of me and it real. No weak link, everyone is authentic and casted so well. Even the gangsters look like real mob. No one over acts, everyone’s is just believable.
I knewBrando can act but wow, one his best performance.
I can see why they say “ they don’t make like this anymore”
No glitz, glamour or **** in the acting, screenplay and directing.
Must watch.
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A draining experience from beginning to end, relentless in its portrayal of inhumanity.
Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious—largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice—the old sentimental prejudice that ordinary people are wonderful no matter what they do.
We must salute screenwriter Budd Schulberg (his speech for priest Karl Malden in the loading bay is still stirring). Add the acting/writing heroics a restrained score by Leonard Bernstein and a striking, charcoal look by cinematographer Boris Kaufman, and you have an elegiac portrait of labour relations that feels like a kick in the slats.
Moviemaking of a rare and high order. (Review of Original Release)
Brando made one of his most indelible impressions in this relentlessly dramatic, ever-controversial tale of loyalty and betrayal in the world of working-class unions.
Simply a movie that marked the history of cinema. Marlon Brando delivers a masterful performance as Terry Malloy. And their co-stars Eva Marie-Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger are not far behind, especially Cobb, in the skin of the great villain Johnny Friendly. With a sensational script, a instrumental soundtrack by Leonard Bernstein and impeccable direction by Elia Kazan, "On the Waterfront" is simply a classic not to be missed.
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On the Waterfront is and will always remain Marlon Brando-Elia Kazan's quintessential masterwork
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a awesome film about American patriotism against corruption and organized crime, its a film most people don't make anymore, no holds barred.
Marlon Brando stars in a spectacular performance that even outshines his iconic performance as Vito Corleone, as Terry Malloy an ex-boxer and part time loser who is convinced by his superiors to testify against the murderous mafia who are using the harbors for illegal drug trade.
featuring masterful direction from Elia Kazan, and Brando's tough and emotional star power, in the famous scene where he successfully stands up against his own brother Charlie (Rod Steiger) "I Could Have been a Contender" its a movie men in america of all ages young or old must see to make them more of a winner again than a loser.
undeniably its the greatest American film classic of the early 20th century and winner of 8 academy awards!
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 8 Wins & 12 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
