Country: USA
Year: 1954
Duration: 108'
The washed-up boxer Terry Malloy gets involved by his brother in a corruption scheme involving New York’s dock workers, where the man is making a career for himself by supporting the union’s powerful boss. Out of love for the sister of a worker who was killed and with the support of a priest, he testifies against the criminal and despite his brother’s murder and a violent beating, he finds the strength to resist and reaffirm his right to work. Another cornerstone of Brando’s career, with all the power of its ambiguity and political contradictions, in view of the movie’s critical representation of the work world and Kazan’s controversial position during McCarthyism. A plethora of Oscars: best picture, best director, best actor in a leading role (Brando), best actress in a supporting role (Eva Marie Saint), best original screenplay (Budd Schulberg), best cinematography (Boris Kaufman), best film editing (Gene Milford), and best set decoration (Richard Day). The cast also includes Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb.
Biography
film director
Elia Kazan
(Constantinople, Turkey, 1909 - New York 2003), born Elias Kazancıoğlu, was a director, screenwriter, actor, author, movie and theatrical producer of Greek origin, and a naturalized American citizen. Famous for having founded the Actors Studio in New York in 1947, as a film director he made some of the most important Hollywood movies of the 1950s and ’60s, all the while maintaining his ties with theatre and contemporary literature (in particular with John Steinbeck and Tennessee Williams, whose play A Streetcar Named Desire he adapted for the silver screen), before dedicating himself to writing novels. He won Oscars for best director for Gentleman’s Agreement (1948) and On the Waterfront (1955), and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1999. His name is associated with McCarthyism because of his controversial collaboration with the McCarthy Commission.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Un albero cresce a Brooklyn, 1945), The Sea of Grass (Il mare d'erba, 1947), Boomerang! (Boomerang - L'arma che uccide, 1947), Gentleman's Agreement (Barriera invisibile, 1947), Pinky (Pinky, la negra bianca, 1949), Panic in the Streets (Bandiera gialla, 1950), A Streetcar Named Desire (Un tram che si chiama Desiderio, 1951), Viva Zapata! (id., 1952), Man on a Tightrope (Salto mortale, 1953), On the Waterfront (Fronte del porto, 1954), East of Eden (La valle dell'Eden, 1955), Baby Doll (Baby Doll - La bambola viva, 1956), A Face in the Crowd (Un volto nella folla, 1957), Wild River (Fango sulle stelle, 1960), Splendor in the Grass (Splendore nell'erba, 1961), America, America (Il ribelle dell'Anatolia, 1963), The Arrangement (Il compromesso, 1969), The Visitors (I visitatori, 1972), The Last Tycoon (Gli ultimi fuochi, 1976).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Elia Kazan. STORY, SCREENPLAY: Budd Schulberg. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Boris Kaufman. EDITING: Gene Milford. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Richard Day. COSTUME DESIGN: Anna Hill Johnstone. MUSIC: Leonard Bernstein. CAST: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Martin Balsam, John F. Hamilton, Tony Galento. PRODUCTION: Sam Spiegel per Horizon Pictures.
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