On the Waterfront from Columbia Pictures, directed by Elia Kazan. Best Picture of the Year for 1954. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint (in her movie debut), Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger; featuring Fred Gwynne, Martin Balsam, Pat Hingle, Leif Erickson, Nehemiah Persoff, and James Westerfield. A mob-connected union boss 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 until a washed-up boxer is persuaded to cooperate with authorities and testify against the union boss.
On the Waterfront from Columbia Pictures, directed by Elia Kazan. Best Picture of the Year for 1954. Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint (in her movie debut), Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger; featuring Fred Gwynne, Martin Balsam, Pat Hingle, Leif Erickson, Nehemiah Persoff, and James Westerfield. A mob-connected union boss 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 until a washed-up boxer is persuaded to cooperate with authorities and testify against the union boss.
