On The Waterfront (Criterion Collection) (1954) On Blu-Ray

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Actor: Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
Director:    Elia Kazan
Genre:    Drama
Year: 1954
Studio:    Criterion Collection
Length: 108
Released:   February 19, 2013
Rating:    Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language:   English
Subtitles:     English

DESCRIPTION:

Marlon Brando (The Godfather) gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry, a raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. On the Waterfront charts Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (12 Angry Men’s Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (In the Heat of the Night’s Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan (Gentlemen’s Agreement) and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg (A Face in the Crowd), On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (North by Northwest’s Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition

Alternate presentations of the feature restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)

Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition

Commentary featuring authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young

New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones

Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary

New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others

New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint

Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001

Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene

New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film

New interview with author James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront) about the real-life people and places behind the film

Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score

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PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Almereyda and reprints of Kazan’s 1952 ad in the New York Times defending his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, one of the 1948 New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson on which the film was based, and a 1953 Commonweal piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg

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