On the Waterfront
The man lived by the jungle law of the docks!
Overview
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
- Budget
- $910,000
- Revenue
- $9,600,631
- Production
- Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures
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Cast
Marlon Brando
Terry Malloy
Eva Marie Saint
Edie Doyle
Karl Malden
Father Barry
Lee J. Cobb
Johnny Friendly
Rod Steiger
Charley Malloy
Pat Henning
Kayo Dugan
Leif Erickson
Glover
James Westerfield
Big Mac
Tony Galento
Truck
John F. Hamilton
'Pop' Doyle
John Heldabrand
Mott
Rudy Bond
Moose
Don Blackman
Luke
Martin Balsam
Gillette (uncredited)
Fred Gwynne
Slim (uncredited)
Anne Hegira
Mrs. Collins (uncredited)
Pat Hingle
Jocko (uncredited)
Katherine MacGregor
Longshoreman's Mother (uncredited)
Nehemiah Persoff
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Johnny Seven
Longshoreman (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Elia Kazan
- Writers
- Budd Schulberg
- Producers
- Sam Spiegel
- Cinematography
- Boris Kaufman
- Composer
- Leonard Bernstein
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John Chard
September 6, 2020
You think you're God Almighty, but you know what you are? You're a cheap, lousy, dirty, stinkin' mug! And I'm glad what I done to you, ya hear that? I'm glad what I done! On the Waterfront is directed by Elia Kazan and adapted to screenplay by Budd Schulberg from a series of Malcolm Johnson articles. It stars Marlon Brando, lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger and Pat Henning. Music is by Leonard Bernstein and cinematography by Boris Kaufman. Terry Malloy (Brando) was on…
James
October 20, 2023
This coulda’ been a contender in a lot of greatest movie polls if people just took a second to fully appreciate it.
CinemaSerf
April 6, 2024
Although it's Marlon Brando who takes top billing here, I found it was Karl Malden's "Father Barry" who stole the story as the priest who is determined to galvanises the New York dockers to step out from under the oppressive shadow of their boss "Johnny Friendly" (Lee J. Cobb). He's standing over a corpse, that of "Doyle". The deceased had been reputedly chatting with the crime commissioner and so took an unexpected dive off his building. He was a pigeon fancier, and it was this hobby that we kn…
Wuchak
May 30, 2024
**_Popular quasi-film noir early in Brando’s career_** A former prize-fighter (Marlon) wrestles with his conscience as a longshoreman on the Hudson River across from Manhattan and the Empire State Building. He finds himself attracted to the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of a murdered dockworker while his lawyer brother (Rod Steiger) defends the corrupt Union boss (Lee J. Cobb). Karl Malden is on hand as a concerned local minister. "On the Waterfront" (1954) is an iconic B&W crime drama that wo…