Word: elias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint. Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...Waterfront. Elia Kazan's big-shouldered melodrama of dockside corruption: with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb (TIME...
...Waterfront (Horizon; Columbia) is an attempt by a master director, Elia Kazan, to develop heroic, classic-style drama out of dockside thuggery and union corruption. Kazan succeeds in producing a shrewd piece of screen journalism, a melodrama in the grand manner of Public Enemy and Little Caesar. But he fails to do anything more serious-largely because he tries too hard. In searching for the general meaning in little lives, Director Kazan has trained his lens down fine on small events; he has too often watched his characters through the magnifying glass of special prejudice-the old sentimental prejudice that...
Former Spencer lectures on theater topics include Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, and T. S. Eliot...