ON THE WATERFRONT
"ON THE WATERFRONT" --- (1954) --- NOT RATED
SYNOPSIS: "Dockworker Terry Malloy had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie and the streetwise priest Father Barry to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley."
STARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Rudy Bond and Fred Gwynne.
SCREENPLAY: Budd Schulberg; Suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson.
DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan
AWARDS & OTHER HONORS:
It was nominated for twelve (12) Academy Awards and won eight
( 8 ) for:
"Best Motion Picture"
"Best Director"
"Best Actor" (Marlon Brando)
"Best Supporting Actress" (Eva Marie Saint)
"Best Story and Screenplay"
"Best Art Direction - Black & White"
"Best Cinematography - Black & White"
"Best Film Editing"
It was nominated for twenty-four (24) additional awards, from various entities, and won nineteen (19) of them.
In 1989, it was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry at The Library of Congress.
In 1995, it made it on the Vatican's list of the 45 Greatest Films.
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