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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

On the Waterfront is an American 1954 film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and became a standard of its kind. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, and Karl Malden. The film deals with social issues which paralleled the emerging organization of labor.

It is seen by many as a jab by Kazan at his former close friend, Arthur Miller, who along with Lillian Hellman was bitterly and openly resentful of Kazan's " betrayal" of film artists to the HUAC as " communists" . Specifically, it may be a direct response to Miller's A View from the Bridge, which tells a very similar story but portrays the protagonist in disesteem. On the Waterfront, being about a heroic mob informer, is widely considered to be Kazan's answer to his critics. Miller's The Crucible, about a heroic New England Puritan who chooses to die rather than make false accusations of witchcraft, is considered a follow-up response to Kazan.

In On the Waterfront its protagonist's (Terry Malloy's) fight against corruption was modeled after whistle-blowing longshoreman Anthony De Vincenzo. Who testified before a real-life Waterfront Commission on the facts of life on the Hoboken docks and had suffered a degree of ostracization for his deed.DiVincenzo sued & settled, many years after, with Columbia Pictures over the appropriation of what he considered his story. In which he recounted his story to Schulberg during a month-long session of waterfront barroom meetings - which some claim never occured. Johnny Friendly was based on mobster Albert Anastasia, chief executioner of Murder, Inc.

The film later was called " culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Terry Malloy's line in the film, " You don't understand. I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am" , was voted in a 2005 poll by the American Film Institute as the third most memorable line in cinema history

Details

• Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
• Directors: Elia Kazan
• Format: Bw, Closed-captioned, Special edition, Ntsc, Full Screen
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated:
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• DVD Features:
  • Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, Thai, Chinese
  • Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Commentary by: Film Critic/Writer Richard Schickel and Elia Kazan Biographer Jeff Young (Unknown Format)
  • Exclusive Featurette: " CONTENDER-Mastering the Method"
  • Elia Kazan Interview
  • Vintage Photo Gallery
  • Talent Files (Elia Kazan, Writer Budd Schulberg, Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Eva Marie Saint)

  It was the winner of eight Oscars

• Best Actor - Marlon Brando
• Best Picture - Sam Spiegel, producer
• Best Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint
• Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Richard Day
• Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Boris Kaufman
• Directing - Elia Kazan
• Film Editing - Gene Milford
• Writing, Story and Screenplay - Budd Schulberg

The film also received an additional four Oscar nominations:

• Best Supporting Actor - Lee J. Cobb
• Best Supporting Actor - Karl Malden
• Best Supporting Actor - Rod Steiger
• Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Leonard Bernstein

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  Plot Synopsis: Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.