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On the Waterfront - Trailer

Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:24:07 -0400

Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando finest screen performances. Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings. Terry intends to keep his mouth shut and his job safe. But when Edie, the dead man's beautiful sister, comes to town, he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union and his loyalty to Edie.

On the Waterfront

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:34:39 -0400

This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) rules the waterfront with an iron fist. The police know that he’s been responsible for a number of murders, but witnesses play deaf and dumb ("plead D & D"). Washed-up boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) has had an errand-boy job because of the influence of his brother Charley, a crooked union lawyer (Rod Steiger). Witnessing one of Friendly's rub-outs, Terry is willing to keep his mouth shut until he meets the dead dockworker's sister, Edie (Eva Marie Saint). "Waterfront priest" Father Barry (Karl Malden) tells Terry that Edie's brother was killed because he was going to testify against boss Friendly before the crime commission. Because he could have intervened, but didn't, Terry feels somewhat responsible for the death. When Father Barry receives a beating from Friendly's goons, Terry is persuaded to cooperate with the commission. Featuring Brando's famous "I coulda been a contendah" speech, On the Waterfront has often been seen as an allegory of "naming names" against suspected Communists during the anti-Communist investigations of the 1950s. Director Elia Kazan famously informed on suspected Communists before a government committee — unlike many of his colleagues, some of whom went to prison for refusing to "name names" and many more of whom were blacklisted from working in the film industry for many years to come -- and Budd Schulberg's screenplay has often been read as an elaborate defense of the informer's position. On the Waterfront won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor for Brando, and Best Supporting Actress for Saint. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Baby Doll (1956)

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:30:48 -0400

Scandalous in its time, still steamy today: Tennessee Williams' ribald tale of a Mississippi child bride (Carroll Baker) and the men (Karl Malden, Eli Wallach) who lust after her.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Mon, 11 May 2009 14:12:28 -0400

In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella’s boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks she's holding out on inheritance money that rightfully belongs to Stella. On the fringes of sanity, Blanche is trying to forget her checkered past and start life anew. Attracted to Stanley's friend Mitch (Karl Malden), she glosses over the less savory incidents in her past, but she soon discovers that she cannot outrun that past, and the stage is set for her final, brutal confrontation with her brother-in-law. Brando, Hunter, and Malden had all starred in the original Broadway version of Streetcar, although the original Blanche had been Jessica Tandy. Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart for the 1951 Best Actor Oscar, but Leigh, Hunter, and Malden all won Oscars. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Baby Doll - Trailer

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:15:13 -0400

Scandalous in its time, still steamy today: Tennessee Williams' ribald tale of a Mississippi child bride (Carroll Baker) and the men (Karl Malden, Eli Wallach) who lust after her. Year: 1956 Director: Elia Kazan Starring: Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach

Our Man Flint (1966)

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:36:22 -0400

A secret agent is called in to track down an evil cartel bent on controlling the planet by controlling its weather.

On the Waterfront - (Movie Clip)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:42:11 -0400

Terry (Marlon Brando) and Edie (Eva Marie Saint) in their famous conversation in the saloon from Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront , 1954, from Budd Schulberg's script.

Trailer #1 for All Fall Down

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:48:42 -0500