Template:Featured film (Week 27, 2008)

On the Waterfront is a classic 1954 American film about mob violence and corruption among longshoremen, and it has become a standard of its genre.

The film was directed by Elia Kazan and stars Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb. The film deals with social issues which paralleled the emerging organization of labor. It was based on a series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson.

On the Waterfront was among several films Brando performed in during the 1950s that rose him to cult status as an actor.

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