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On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Eva Marie Saint. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard Bernstein. It is based on a series of articles written in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson.
The film received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. It is Leonard Bernstein's only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs.
This story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play "D and D" ("deaf and dumb"), accepting their subservient position rather than risk the danger and shame of informing.
Actors: Amos Poe (actor), Lydia Lunch (actress), Amos Poe (director), Amos Poe (writer), Amos Poe (producer), Amos Poe (editor), John Lurie (composer), John Lurie (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Susan Tyrrell (actress), Robbie Coltrane (actor), William Rice (actor), Glenn O'Brien (actor), Ivan Král (composer), Cookie Mueller (actress),
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