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ON THE WATERFRONT PG

1954

OUT 5 APRIL CINEMAS

Elia Kazan is a problematic figure, remembered as both an incredible director but also for naming names during the Hollywood blacklist is not just one of his greatest films, rivalled only by and (which featured respectively - Marlon Brando and James Dean’s breakthrough roles), it’s arguably one of the greatest films ever made, filled with the complex moralities and antiheroes that were Kazan’s stock in trade.

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