On the Waterfront Rating: Release Date: 23 October, 2001 Retail Price: $24.95 OUR Price: $18.71 You SAVE: $6.24! Cast: Marlon Brando Karl Malden Malden Eva Marie Saint Complete Cast (8 total)

On the Waterfront Reviews

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One of Hollywood's Most Uplifting Moments
The story of Brando's charactor's decision to fight for whats right regardless of personal consequences. But to me the star of the show is Karl Malden who plays a Catholic Priest willing to put his life on the line to live as Christ told him to. His speach following the murder in the cargo-hold is one of the most inspirational moments in all cinema.

So good it doesn't need us
This is simply one of those "required reading" films--part of the new Western Cultural Canon. If you are exploring older movies, or are simply exploring, you'll find considerable merit here: an excellent script, a dazzling Brando performance, a cast that's from top to bottom exceptional, beautiful direction, tremendous atmosphere and cinematography, and a dynamic score by Leonard Bernstein. It's almost an exercise in how to make a fine film.

For younger people who may not have a good sense of what the past was like, or may have learned too much about certain struggles and not enough about others, this is an educational film. This is what New York City--and most of urban America--really looked like back in the Fifties. Get a good sense of that and you'll understand why so many back then were drawn to glass and steel skyscrapers and big colorful cars with tail fins--between the Stock Market crash in 1929 and the end of WWII in 1945, urban America was a mean and grubby place, and it took till the late Fifties to begin to change that. The mean and grubby characters are pretty accurate too--nothing glamorous about corruption and racketeering back then. It was a pretty sad world.

I'm a little bewildered and saddened by some of the reviews this fine film has picked up.

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