Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

On the waterfront [videorecording] / director, Elia Kazan.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Image Entertainment, [2013]

Description:

3 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Series:

Criterion collection.

Subjects:

Corruption -- Drama.

Organized crime -- Drama.

Clergy -- Drama.

Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Corrupt practices -- Drama.

Gangster films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Brando, Marlon.

Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002.

Malden, Karl.

Kazan, Elia.

Image Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Title from web page.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Special features: Alternate presentations in fullscreen and widescreen; commentary featuring Richard Schickel and Jeff Young; new conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones; Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary; new documentary on the making of the film; interviews; Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film's most famous scene; visual essay on Leonard Bernstein's score; trailer.

Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb.

DVD, widescreen (1.66:1, 16:9) and full screen presentations; Dolby digital 5.1.

English dialogue; English subtitles.

ISBN:

9786314942342

Publisher Number:

CC2097DDVD

Other Number:

820575782

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

349499

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE On the w

Medium:

[videorecording]