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On the waterfront
Title:
On the waterfront
Author:
Kazan, Elia director.
Edition:
Three-DVD special edition
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]

©2013
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (41 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
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.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Based upon an original story by Budd Schulberg; suggested by articles by Malcolm Johnson.

Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary by authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young; New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones; Elia Kazan: an outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary; Visual essay on the aspect ratio; Trailer. Disc 2: Alternate presentation of 1.85:1 (widescreen) restoration; "I'm standin' over here now" (new making of documentary); New interview with Eva Marie Saint; Interview with Elia Kazan from 2001; New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley. Disc 3: Alternate presentation of 1.33:1 (full-screen) restoration; Who is Mr. Big? (new interview with author James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film); Contender: mastering the method (2001 documentary on the film's most famous scene); Leonard Bernstein's score (visual essay). Booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan's 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, one of the 1948 Malcolm Johnson articles that inspired the film, and a 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg.
Language:
English
Contents:
disc 1. 4k restoration version -- disc 2. Alternate presentation of 1.85:1 restoration -- disc 3. Alternate presentation of 1.33:1 restoration.
Reading Level:
Rating: Not rated.
ISBN:
9781604656602
UPC:
715515101615
Format :
DVD