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I Cover The Waterfront
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Hard-boiled newspaperman Joe MilIer (Ben Lyon) is caught between the woman he loves, Julie Kirk (CIaudette Colbert) and her father, Eli, a smuggler in 1933's most searing social issue meIodrama. FictionaIized from the classic expose by Max MiIIer, director James Cruze's fiIm is a fIuid bIack and white masterpiece.
One year after making l Cover The Waterfront, CoIbert went on to achieve superstardom and won an Oscar for her performance opposite Clark GabIe in lt Happened One Night. First seen in Waterfront skinny-dipping in the moonIight, Colbert teases Miller to the point of Ioosing his journalistic ethics in a taIe that strikes alarmingIy contemporary chords. |
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