On the Waterfront
Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play "D and D" ("deaf and dumb"), accepting their subservient position, rather than risking the danger and shame of informing.
Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is a dockworker whose brother Charley "the Gent" (Rod Steiger) is Friendly's right-hand man. Terry had been a promising boxer until Friendly instructed Charley to have Terry deliberately lose a fight so that Friendly could win money by betting against him. Terry coaxes Joey Doyle (Ben Wagner), a popular dockworker, into an ambush, preventing Joey from testifying against Friendly before the Crime Commission. Terry assumed that Friendly's enforcers were only going to "lean" on Joey to pressure him into silence, and is surprised when Joey is killed.
| MPAA Rating: | NR |
| Genre: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Sam Spiegel |
| Directed By: | Elia Kazan |
| Written By: | Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak, Budd Schulberg |
| Cast: | Johnny Seven, Marlon Brando, John F. Hamilton, Rudy Bond, Mike O'Dowd, Anne Hegira, Abe Simon, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Pat Hingle, Dan Bergin, Edward McNally, Arthur Keegan, James Westerfield, Michael V. Gazzo, Tiger Joe Marsh, Rod Steiger, Zachary Charles, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, Martin Balsam, Don Blackman, Tami Mauriello, Barry Macollum, Jere Delaney, Fred Gwynne, Tony Galento, John Heldabrand, Scottie MacGregor, Eva Marie Saint, Nehemiah Persoff |
| In Theaters: | Jun 22, 1954 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 48 minutes |
| Production: | Horizon Pictures |
| Budget: | $910,000 |
| Box Office: | $9,600,000 |
| Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
