A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later--Still the Great American Contender

by Stephen Rebello

Perhaps no movie has better dramatized the interplay of ambition, corruption, and disappointment in America than On the Waterfront, best captured in the closing "I could've been a contender" speech given by Marlon Brando's character Terry Malloy. A gripping tale about organized crime and dockworkers in New Jersey, it is justifiably remembered today as one of the greatest movies of the twentieth century.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493077805
• ISBN13: 9781493077809
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 225 Pages