On the Waterfront (1954) –”I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.” Marlon Brando won his first Academy Award as Terry Malloy, the former prize fighter turned longshoreman on the mob-dominated docks of New York. Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, […]
Boomerang (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) from 1947 picked up the semi-documentary strain of American crime drama that was born in the 1945 The House on 92nd Street (also from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu-ray) and improved upon the original. It’s also produced by Louis de Rochement and features the disembodied voice of narrator Reed […]
