A city full of hawks : On the waterfront seventy years later--still the great American contender
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Perhaps no movie has better captured the interplay of ambition, corruption, and disappointment in America than On the Waterfront, best captured in the closing 'I could've been a contender' speech given by Marlon Brando's character Terry Malloy. A gripping tale about organized crime and dockworkers in New Jersey, it is justifiably remembered today as one of the greatest movies of the twentieth century. This film about internecine power struggles and thwarted ambition had its share of big personalities involved in its making, among them Brando, Elia Kazan, playwright Arthur Miller, screenwriter Schulberg, producer Sam Spiegel, composer Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Montgomery, Grace Kelly, Aaron Copland, Martin Scorsese, and more. What happened among them, let alone the dramas that were unfolding in their personal lives when they were off set, ironically recalls what Michael Corleone says in one of On the Waterfront's most celebrated descedents, The Godfather: 'It's not personal. It's strictly business.' But, of course, it's always intensely personal--as Stephen Rebello's fascinating narrative of the film's making shows"--,Provided by publisher.