162 On the Waterfront Part 1
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Cine-Files, John and Steve explore one of the most groundbreaking, influential and powerful films ever made, Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Todd Steiger and Eva Marie Saint.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Steve. Entering the world of Elliot Kazan's on the waterfront is like |
| 0:05.8 | journeying into the heart of the American experience. It's not just about dock |
| 0:10.4 | workers and organized crime, but about unions who instead of helping the little guy are keeping him down. |
| 0:16.3 | It's about the Catholic Church living up to its ideals and families just trying to keep their |
| 0:21.0 | heads above water. |
| 0:23.2 | But on the waterfront is more than that. |
| 0:24.7 | It's about Hollywood, finally turning its lens away from a brightly polished and perfectly |
| 0:29.6 | constructed fiction and towards the real America with real violence, crime, passion, and most of all simple |
| 0:36.4 | human living. |
| 0:38.4 | On the waterfront is also the crest of a new wave of acting which had its origins in Stanislofsky in the group theater |
| 0:44.6 | through the foundations of the actor studio and finally transforming Broadway with |
| 0:48.8 | shattering productions of a streetcar named Desire and death of a salesman. |
| 0:53.0 | And of course there is director Elliot Kazan whose passion, daring, |
| 0:57.0 | and unapologetic ego brings us not only some of the greatest films ever made |
| 1:01.0 | but also from the Communist Party of the 30s to the House Un-American |
| 1:04.9 | Activities Committee and the blacklist of the 50s. |
| 1:08.7 | And with each layer we unravel of this groundbreaking and powerful film, we realize there will always be more to learn, discuss, |
| 1:16.8 | argue about, and discover. |
| 1:19.0 | So if you haven't seen on the waterfront, you owe it to yourself as a cinephile to go down to cinephiles.net |
| 1:25.0 | where you can buy or stream it along with every other movie we've ever reviewed. |
| 1:29.0 | Then come back on Friday to hear John and I discuss one of his favorite films and mine |
| 1:33.4 | Ellie Kazan's brilliant, passionate, and powerful on the waterfront. |
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