The former boxing champion Terry Malloy now works as a longshoreman for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt union boss, who runs the operations alongside Charley Malloy, Terry’s brother. He feels guilty about being involved in an ambush that ends up in the death of a fellow worker. But then he meets and falls in love with Edie, the sister of the deceased worker, who is looking for clues to solve her brother’s murder. Their companionship will end up changing some of Terry’s moral concepts.
Winner of eight Academy awards and of the Silver Lion of best director at Venice Film Festival.
Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Film Foundation.
Título original: ON THE WATERFRONT
Ano: 1954
Classificação: General Audiences
Duração: 108 min.
Gênero: Fiction
País: United States
Cor: PB
Direção: ELIA KAZAN
Roteiro: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson
Fotografia: Boris Kaufman
Montagem: Gene Milford
Elenco: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
Produtor: Sam Spiegel
Produção: Horizon-American Pictures
Música: Leonard Bernstein