On the Waterfront is a social criticism gangster film from director Elia Kazan, about an ex-boxer, who is part of the corruption of the trade unions for the men working on the waterfront in New York. A film about mob violence that won eight Academy Awards.
Marlon Brando | Terry Malloy | |
Karl Malden | Father Barry | |
Lee J. Cobb | Johnny Friendly | |
Rod Steiger | Charley Malloy | |
Pat Henning | Kayo Dugan | |
Leif Erickson | Glover | |
James Westerfield | Big Mac | |
Tony Galento | Truck | |
Tami Mauriello | Tillio | |
John F. Hamilton | 'Pop' Doyle | |
John Heldabrand | Mott | |
Rudy Bond | Moose | |
Don Blackman | Luke | |
Arthur Keegan | Jimmy | |
Abe Simon | Barney | |
Eva Marie Saint | Edie Doyle | |
Martin Balsam | Gillette | |
Dan Bergin | Sidney | |
Zachary Charles | Dues Collector | |
Jere Delaney | Bit Part | |
Robert Downing | Bit | |
Lynne Forrester | Woman | |
Michael V. Gazzo | Bit | |
Fred Gwynne | Slim | |
Thomas Handley | Tommy Collins |
Director | Elia Kazan | |
Writer | Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak | |
Producer | Sam Spiegel | |
Musician | Leonard Bernstein | |
Photography | Boris Kaufman |
Quantity | 1 |
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Added Date | Dec 26, 2015 22:20:06 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:21 |
Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1) Fullscreen (4:3) Widescreen (1.85:1) |
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Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] Dolby Digital Mono [French] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] DTS [English] DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 [English] PCM Stereo [English] |
Subtitles | Chinese | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | Korean | Mandarin | Portuguese | Spanish | Thai |
Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Edition Release Date | Oct 23, 2001 |
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Disc Features
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Alternate presentations of the restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)
Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young
New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones
Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary
New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others
New interview with actor Eva Marie Saint
Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001
Contender: Mastering the Method, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene
New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film
New interview with author James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film
Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score
Visual essay on the aspect ratio
Trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan’s 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, one of the 1948 Malcolm Johnson articles that inspired the film, and a 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg
New cover illustration by Sean Phillips, design by Eric Skillman