On the waterfront
(DVD Set)

Based on a series of articles written for the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Some items lack book.

Features: audio commentary by authors 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, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others; new interview with actor Eva Marie Saint; interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001; Contender : mastering the method (2001) documentary on the film's most famous scene; new interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film; new interview with author James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film; visual essay on Leonard Bernstein's score; visual essay on the aspect ratio; trailer; 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.

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

An ex-fighter gets caught up in the waterfront gangs after the death of his brother.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVDs, Dolby digital 5.1.

For private home use only.