Winner of eight Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay – On the Waterfront returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration for its 70th anniversary.
Marlon Brando gives one of his defining performances as Terry Malloy: a longshoreman who finds himself drawn into an increasingly bitter dispute with the New York City dockers’ Union.
By turns searing and elegiac, On the Waterfront is a tragedy of American corruption, redemption and coulda-been contenders. Two years prior to its release, director Elia Kazan infamously testified against fellow filmmakers before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. On the Waterfront marked the beginning of the controversial next chapter in his career.
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