What is On the Waterfront / The Liberation of L.B. Jones about?

Double Feature: ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, 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. [35mm] THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES, 1970, 102 min. Roscoe Lee Browne throws off sparks as rich, black undertaker L.B. Jones, a man cuckolded by his amoral wife and one of the town’s meanest white cops. When Jones decides he wants a divorce, he suddenly finds himself taking the brunt of escalating harassment from Zerbe, who wants to keep secret his affair with a black woman.

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What is On the Waterfront / The Liberation of L.B. Jones about?: Double Feature: ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, 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. [35mm]

THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES, 1970, 102 min. Roscoe Lee Browne throws off sparks as rich, black undertaker L.B. Jones, a man cuckolded by his amoral wife and one of the town’s meanest white cops. When Jones decides he wants a divorce, he suddenly finds himself taking the brunt of escalating harassment from Zerbe, who wants to keep secret his affair with a black woman.