A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later-Still the Great American Contender

"Journalist Rebello delivers a meticulous account of On the Waterfront's bumpy path to the silver screen.... Rebello gamely traces how real-life political drama combined with rank Hollywood gamesmanship to create a classic of American film. Cinephiles will be transfixed." - Publishers Weekly

Perhaps no movie has better dramatized 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...