On the waterfront

DVD 2013

Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he's been responsible for a number of murders, but witnesses play deaf and dumb ("plead D & D"). Washed-up boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) has had an errand-boy job because of the influence of his brother Charley, a crooked union lawyer (Rod Steiger). Witnessing one of Friendly's rub-outs, Terry is willing to keep his mouth shut...

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ISBN:

9781604656602
9781604655602

Edition:

Special edition

Description:

3 videodiscs (108 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Other Title:

On the waterfront (Motion picture) [DVD]

Notes:

Based on a series of articles written for the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954
Features: audio commentary by authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young; new conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones; Elia Kazan : outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary; new documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others; new interview with actor Eva Marie Saint; interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001; Contender : mastering the method (2001) documentary on the film's most famous scene; new interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film; new interview with author James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film; visual essay on Leonard Bernstein's score; visual essay on the aspect ratio; trailer; booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan's 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, one of the 1948 Malcolm Johnson articles that inspired the film, and a 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg
Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint
DVD ; full and widescreen presentations ; Dolby digital 5.1
For private home use only

Control Number:

1148084

UPC:

715515101615

Other Authors:

Brando, Marlon
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Johnson Malcolm, 1904-1976
Kazan, Elia
Malden, Karl
Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002

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