@movienight-with-Josh-BarryOn the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan from a script by Budd Schulberg and starring Marlon Brando, is a crime drama set among longshoremen on the Hoboken, New Jersey docks. It combines a morality tale about courage and conscience with a realistic portrait of union corruption, elevated by Leonard Bernstein’s score and some of the most influential acting and writing of Hollywood’s “method” era.