On the Waterfront

by Leo Braudy

"I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody." So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) that is one of the most famous in all cinema. Set among unionised New York longshoremen, Kazan's film (from a screenplay by Budd Schulberg) recounts Terry's struggle against corruption and his ultimate, hard-won victory. The marvellous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184457072X
• ISBN13: 9781844570720
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"