On The Waterfront (Kazan, 1954): Prince Charles Cinema, 12.15pm
This is a 35mm presentation.
Time Out review:
Superb performances (none more so than Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, the
ex-boxer unwittingly entangled in corrupt union politics), a memorably
colourful script by Budd Schulberg, and a sure control of atmosphere
make this account of Brando's struggles against gangster Lee J Cobb's hold
over the New York longshoremen's union powerful stuff. It is undermined,
however, by both the religious symbolism (that turns Malloy not into a
Judas but a Christ figure) and the embarrassing special pleading on
behalf of informers, deriving presumably from the fact that Elia Kazan and
Schulberg named names during the McCarthy witch-hunts. Politics apart,
though, it's pretty electrifying.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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