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On the Waterfront' is moviemaking of a rare and ... He must decide whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry ...
“On the Waterfront” remains compelling because ... Early in the film, mob boss Johnny Friendly proudly recounts his ascent to prominence. Lee J. Cobb, who plays Friendly, could masterfully ...
The Waterfront Commission for New York Harbor ... Its charge was to clear the docks of hoodlums like Johnny Friendly, the vicious mob potentate in a camel’s-hair coat played by Lee J.
As any cineaste knows, Johnny Friendly was the crooked union boss played by Lee J. Cobb in Elia Kazan’s 1954 classic “On the Waterfront.” In the movie, Friendly is the nemesis of Terry ...
On the Waterfront, though, remains an inspired film. Marlon Brando glows as Terry Malloy, a boxer turned longshoreman whose brother Charley (Rod Steiger) works for mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J.
On the Waterfront is being re-released next month ... Co-starring as the mobster union boss Johnny Friendly was Lee J Cobb, the original Willy Loman in Kazan’s stage production of Arthur Miller ...
On the Waterfront is about a washed-up boxer, Terry Malloy, portrayed by Marlon Brando, who is an errand boy for Johnny Friendly, a mob-connected union boss portrayed by Lee J. Cobb. After ...
Unironically, On the Waterfront is itself a story about informants ... a man who owes his livelihood to crooked mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb); Terry’s older brother Charley (played ...
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly ... testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams ...
“On the Waterfront” is packed with strongarm dramatics that bespeak impressive business down the line. Budd Schulberg’s script is based on his own original which in turn was “suggested ...