On the Waterfront
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| 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 |
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Marlon Brando Karl Malden Lee J. Cobb Rod Steiger Eva Marie Saint |
| Music by | Leonard Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Boris Kaufman |
| Edited by | Gene Milford |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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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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