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On The Waterfront (Criterion Collection)

On The Waterfront (Criterion Collection)

Columbia TriStar (1954)
Crime | Drama
USA | English | Black & White | 01:48
Criterion Collection
Blu-ray
UR (Unrated)
715515101516
| 2 discs
Region Free
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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.


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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

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Added Date Dec 26, 2015 22:20:06
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:34:21

Edition details

Screen Ratios Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)
Fullscreen (4:3)
Widescreen (1.85:1)
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

Notes

2015 Christmas gift from Mom & Dad

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

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