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On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront original poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster.
Directed by Elia Kazan
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Screenplay by Budd Schulberg
Story by Budd Schulberg
Based on Suggested by
"Crime on the Waterfront"
(1948 newspaper articles)
by Malcolm Johnson
Starring Marlon Brando
Karl Malden
Lee J. Cobb
Rod Steiger
Eva Marie Saint
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Cinematography Boris Kaufman
Edited by Gene Milford
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 28, 1954 (1954-07-28)
Running time
108 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $910,000
Box office $9.6 million

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, and, in her film debut, Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film was suggested by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November-December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption amongst longshoremen while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.

On the Waterfront was a critical and commercial success and received twelve Academy Award nominations, winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan. In 1997 it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth-greatest American movie of all time and in AFI's 2007 list it was ranked 19th. It is Bernstein's only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs.


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