On The Waterfront (1954) Criterion 1080p BluRay HEVC EAC3-SARTRE + Extras

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.

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Extras

• Martin Scorsese and Kent Jones - In this conversation, recorded exclusively for Criterion in 2012, director Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones discuss Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, its production history, some of the controversy that surrounded the film before and after it was completed, etc. Mr. Scorsese also explains why On the Waterfront had such a profound impact on him and discusses its stylistic similarities with the films of the Italian neorealists. The acclaimed director also talks about Robert Rossen's Body and Soul and points out some of the similarities between Marlon Brando and John Garfield's performances. In English, not subtitled. (18 min, 720p).

• Elia Kazan: An Outsider - This documentary film from 1982, directed by Annie Tresgot and produced by Argos Films, focuses on the life and career of Elia Kazan. It is comprised of long and very insightful conversations between the acclaimed director and French film critic Michel Ciment. In English, not subtitled. (54 min, 720p).

• "I'm Standin' Over Here Now" - This documentary, produced by Criterion in 2012, features interviews with Leo Braudy (University of Southern California), author of the BFI monograph On the Waterfront; Lisa Dombrowski (Wesleyan University), editor of Kazan Revisited; Cineaste editor Dan Georgakas; Naming Names author Victor Navasky; and film scholar David Thomson, author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film. In English, not subtitled. (45 min, 720p).

• Eva Marie Saint - In this video interview, which was conducted exclusively for Criterion in 2012, Eva Marie Saint recalls her first encounter and collaboration with Elia Kazan on On the Waterfront. The actress also discusses the director's work ethic, Marlon Brando's performance, some of the controversy that surrounded the film before and after it won the eight Academy Awards in 1955, etc. In English, not subtitled. (12 min, 720p).

• A Conversation with Elia Kazan - An archival interview with director Elia Kazan, conducted by film critic Richard Schickel in 2001. In English, not subtitled. (12 min, 720p).

• Thomas Hanley - This video interview, which was recorded exclusively for Criterion in 2012, is one of the best supplemental features on the entire release. Thomas Hanley, who plays Tommy Collins, Marlon Brando's young friend in On the Waterfront, recalls how he was selected to play the feisty boy and talks about real life in and around Hoboken, New Jersey, where the film was shot. Mr. Hanley's father was apparently killed by real gangsters in the same area. In English, not subtitled. (12 min, 720p).

• Who is Mr. Big? - In this video interview, recorded exclusively for Criterion in 2012, James T. Fisher, author of On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York, explains how in the beginning of the century the European immigrants, and the Irish immigrants in particular, affected life in and around the area where On the Waterfront was shot and discusses the life and legacy of the man who controlled the entire New York waterfront, Big Bill McCormack. In English, not subtitled. (26 min, 720p).

• Contender: Mastering the Method - This 2001 documentary considers On the Waterfront's most famous scene -- the taxi conversation between the two brothers, Terry and Charley -- in the light of the Method school of acting, of which Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger were enthusiastic supporters. Critic Richard Schickel, Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton, actor Martin Landau, authors Patricia Bosworth and Jeff Young, and Steiger himself weigh in on the peculiar alchemy that produced the scene. In English, not subtitled. (26 min, 720p).

• Leonard Bernstein's Score - In this video essay, filmed for Criterion in 2012, critic Jon Burlingame discusses Leonard Bernstein's epic score. Mr. Burlingame is the author of the essay "Leonard Bernstein and On the Waterfront: Tragic Nobility, a Lyrical Song, and Music of Violence". In English, not subtitled. (21 min, 720p).

• On the Aspect Ratio - An excellent segment explaining why Criterion's Blu-ray release of On the Waterfront presents the film in three different aspect ratios. In English, not subtitled. (6 min, 720p).

• Trailer - The original theatrical trailer for On the Waterfront. In English, not subtitled. (3 min, 720p).

• Commentary - This is the same excellent audio commentary with film critic and author Richard Schickel (Elia Kazan: A Biography) and Elia Kazan biographer Jeff Young (Kazan: The Master Director Discusses His Films) that first appeared on the R1 DVD release of On the Waterfront, which Sony Pictures produced in the United States in 2005.

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