On the quays

On the quays ( One the Waterfront ) is an American film carried out by Elia Kazan left to the USA in 1954. but in France the January 14th 1955.

The film treats social questions and is based on a series of articles of Malcolm Johnson published in the New York Sun following a true rebellion having taken place in the docks of New York a few years earlier.

Synopsis

In the port of New York, the trade union of the dockers (associate to the powerful power station AFL-CIO) is controlled by a gang gangster directed by the lawyer Johnny Friendly and Charley Malloy. He is not other than the brother of Terry Malloy, a former boxer, itself docker and who will attend the murder of an employee who refused to subject himself to the requirements of the trade union and which wanted to denounce their illegal activities.

Terry Malloy is found then vis-a-vis a case of conscience when Edie Doyle, the sister of the assassinated man requires of him to help it in its research of the murderers…

Data sheet

Title: On the quays
original Title: One the Waterfront / The Hook (provisional title).
Realization: Elia Kazan, director of the Actor' S studio
Scenario: Budd Schulberg, according to the articles of Malcolm Johnson
Production: Sam Spiegel
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Photography: Boris Kaufman
Assembly: Gene Milford
Decorations: Richard Day
Distribution: Columbia
Country of origin: The United States
Turning: in outside, Docks of New York and New Jersey
Format: Black and white - Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Kind: Psychological, Romance drama black, Black series
Budget: 910.000 $
Boxoffice: 9.600.000 $
Lasted: 108 minutes
Comings out date:

the United States: July 28th 1954 (first world in New York)
the United States: August 6th 1954 (first in Los Angeles)
Italy: September 1954 (Mostra of Venice)
France: January 14th 1955

Other titles

Nido of missed (1954) (Argentine, Mexico, Venezuela)
The Hook (provisional title) (the United States)
Sindicato de Ladrões (1954) (Brésil)
V prístavu (Czechoslovakia)

Distribution

Marlon Brando : Terry Malloy
Karl Malden : the father Barry
Eva Marie Saint: Edie Doyle
Rod Steiger : Charley Malloy
Lee J. Cobb: Johnny Friendly
Stalemate Henning: Timothy J. " Kayo" Dugan
Leif Erickson : Glover
James Westerfield: Big Mac
Tony Galento: Truck
Rudy Jump: Moose
John Heldabrand: Mutt
John Hamilton: " Pop" Doyle
Tami Mauriello : Tullio
Arthur Keegan : Jimmy
Gift Blackman: Luke
Martin Balsam: Gillette
Abe Simon: Barney

Rewards

The film gained 8 Oscars in 1954.

Oscar of the best film
Oscar of the best actor for Marlon Brando
Oscar of the best actress in a supporting role for Eva Marie Saint
Oscar of the best artistic director for Richard Day
Oscar of best photography for Boris Kaufman
Oscar of the best realizer for Elia Kazan
Oscar of the best assembly for Gene Milford
Oscar of the best original screenplay for Budd Schulberg

The film also received the Money Lion of Saint-Marc to the Festival of Venice

Around film

Marlon Brando had already collaborated with Elia Kazan in:

a tram named Desire where it held the main role, that of Stanley Kowalski
Viva Zapata! (according to the book of John Steinbeck) in 1952
with the theater where it held already the role of Stanley Kowalski.
with the Actors Studio founded by Kazan and Lee Strasberg (see the televised series Actors Studio of 1948).

Karl Malden and Kazan was very dependant via the theater: they had worked together in the Group Theater at the end of the Années 1930. Like Brando, he played the theater and cinema a tram named Désir . Malden will turn once again for Kazan in 1956 in the headstock of flesh.

Eva Marie Saint holds here its first role with the cinema. Hitherto, it had been satisfied with small roles to the theater or on television. Thereafter, it will collect the Oscars while turning with:

Leonard Bernstein: the made up music for this film is the only one that he did not write for a Musical comedy. It will gain others Oscar S with One day in New York and West Side Story in 1961.

Tourné into full Maccarthysme, the film was not appreciated by cartains, which saw an aggression against the trade unions there.

A few days before turning, Marlo Brando was preferred with Frank Sinatra, which had however given its agreement, for interprêter the role of Terry Malloy.

External bonds

Card IMDb
" Actor' S Studio" series TV of [[1948])].
Card AlloCiné

Simple: One the Waterfront

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