What is On The Waterfront / One-Eyed Jacks about?

ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, Columbia, 108 min. Director Elia Kazan’s stunning adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s account of Hoboken dock-worker life stars Marlon Brando as a has-been fighter who falls in love with the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of the “stool pigeon” he set up. Rod Steiger delivers a wrenching performance as the older brother who helped betray Brando’s chances as a boxer, and Karl Malden is the tough, working-class priest who serves as Brando’s conscience. I.B. Technicolor! ONE-EYED JACKS, 1961, Pennebaker Productions/Paramount, 141 min. Originally intended as a project for director Stanley Kubrick (based on various scripts by Sam Peckinpah and Rod Serling, among others), ONE-EYED JACKS became (in)famous as the only film directed by Marlon Brando -- who also stars as an outlaw bent on taking revenge on former friend Karl Malden.

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What is On The Waterfront / One-Eyed Jacks about?: ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, Columbia, 108 min. Director Elia Kazan’s stunning adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s account of Hoboken dock-worker life stars Marlon Brando as a has-been fighter who falls in love with the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of the “stool pigeon” he set up. Rod Steiger delivers a wrenching performance as the older brother who helped betray Brando’s chances as a boxer, and Karl Malden is the tough, working-class priest who serves as Brando’s conscience.
I.B. Technicolor! ONE-EYED JACKS, 1961, Pennebaker Productions/Paramount, 141 min. Originally intended as a project for director Stanley Kubrick (based on various scripts by Sam Peckinpah and Rod Serling, among others), ONE-EYED JACKS became (in)famous as the only film directed by Marlon Brando -- who also stars as an outlaw bent on taking revenge on former friend Karl Malden.