Review – On the Waterfront

Shame on Robert Osborn and the perpetually-witless Richard Lewis for doing the TCM introduction to this picture without saying a single word about director Elia Kazan’s HUAC-connected motives for making it. Marlon Brando turns in a touching performance as a palooka wrestling with his complicity in the nefarious activities of a longshoremen’s union. Naturally he seems noble standing up to the corrupt system. But the specters of the lives ruined by McCarthyism hangs over the whole thesis. Brando’s good, but so were several cast members from Gone with the Wind. See if desperate