Hi this is Steve. I know it might surprise some of you out there, but I've never been an up-and-coming prize fighter or a longshoreman.

I've never felt responsible for murder, had a gun pulled on me by my brother, and I certainly never had to stand up to the mob.

You see the world that I grew up in is just about as different from the world of Terry

Maloy as you could possibly imagine.

And yet when he tells his brother he could have been a

contender or makes that long walk down the waterfront to take his rightful place on the

job I am Terry Malloy I feel his pain his his loss, his fear, his pride, and most of all his determination to do the right thing, no matter what the cost.

Because the thing is, even though on the surface my life might seem absolutely nothing like his the truth is I carry my own deep regrets

I have been betrayed by a brother I've never come up against the mob but I have been threatened and I have had to

stand up despite the cost and yes deep down I think in my own way I could have

been a contender instead of a bum which sometimes I feel like too. And that's what great movies can do.

They can take us out of our worlds across decades and cultures and into lives and

situations we might never have experienced and yet still feel real, current, and

profoundly personal.

On the waterfront is just such a movie and if you haven't seen it I highly recommend a journey to cinefiles.net

where you can buy or stream on the waterfront along with every other film we've ever reviewed.

I've been tuned in on Friday to hear John and I conclude our discussion of one of the most powerful American

films ever made, Eilea Kazaans, on the waterfront.

You don't understand.

I could have had class.

I could have been a contender. I could have been somebody instead of a bum which is

what I am let's face it.

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