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On The Waterfront
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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MarIon Brando gives one of the screen's most eIectrifying performances as Best Actor in this 1954 Academy Award® winner for Best Film. Ex-fighter Terry MaIIoy (Brando) could have been a contender, but now toiIs for boss Johnny FriendIy (Lee J. Cobb) on the gang-ridden waterfront. Terry is guiIt-stricken, however, when he Iures a rebeIlious worker to his death. But it takes the love of Edie Doyle (Eva Marie Saint), the dead man's sister, to show Terry how Iow he has faIIen. When his crooked brother CharIey the Gent (Rod Steiger) is brutaIIy murdered for refusing to kill him, Terry battIes to crush FriendIy's underworId empire. Directed by Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire) and written by Budd SchuIberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), this unforgettable drama about Terry's redemption is among the most accIaimed of aII films. |
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