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On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando , and features Karl Malden , Lee J. Cobb , Rod Steiger , Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut.
On the Waterfront is a 1954 film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. It may also refer to: It may also refer to: On the Waterfront (festival) , an annual Illinois music festival
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones. Top-grossing films ... On the Waterfront: Carmen Jones: On the Waterfront: Best Director ...
The material from Malcolm Johnson's investigative series was fictionalized and used as a basis for the influential film On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando as a longshoreman, and the working conditions on the docks figure significantly in the film's plot. On the Waterfront was a critical and commercial success that received twelve ...
1998 interview with Schulberg about On the Waterfront "The Priest Who Made Budd Schulberg Run: 'On the Waterfront' and Jesuit Social Action", Inside Fordham Online, May 2003 "Corruption Found at Waterfront Watchdog" The New York Times, August 12, 2009. Article mentions Schulberg and his book On the Waterfront in noting similarity to recent ...
Fred Patrick Henning [1] (July 5, 1908 [citation needed] – April 28, 1973) was an American character actor, best known for playing Kayo Dugan in On The Waterfront (1954). Henning was born in Boston as one of the fourth generation of a theatrical family. He first appeared on stage in a baby carriage at age two months as part of a vaudeville show.
The 27th Academy Awards were held on March 30, 1955, to honor the best films of 1954, hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City. On the Waterfront led the ceremony with twelve nominations and eight wins, including Best Picture.
The lead roles were given to Lee J. Cobb, who had been in On the Waterfront (1954), a similar organized-crime-in-labor story for Columbia, and Kerwin Mathews, who was under contract to the studio and had just starred in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. [11]