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On the Waterfront
Leo Braudy
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Description for On the Waterfront
Paperback. '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. Series: BFI Film Classics. Num Pages: 88 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 192 x 138 x 7. Weight in Grams: 164.
'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 performances of Brando, Steiger and Eva Marie Saint (as well as Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb), Boris Kaufman's photography and Leonard Bernstein's score all justify the ... Read more
'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 performances of Brando, Steiger and Eva Marie Saint (as well as Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb), Boris Kaufman's photography and Leonard Bernstein's score all justify the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
BFI Film Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844570720
SKU
V9781844570720
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About Leo Braudy
Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of, among other books, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity (2003).
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