On the Waterfront

Ben Mankiewicz introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

TCM's new Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces On The Waterfront, 1954.

Something of a manifesto from union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), holding forth for ex-fighter Terry (Marlon Brando), his brother Charlie (Rod Steiger) and assorted thugs, early in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, 1954.

Father Barry (Karl Malden) with a fiery sermon in the hold of a ship where a longshoreman has been killed by union thugs, Terry (Marlon Brando), Edie (Eva Marie Saint), the sister of an earlier victim, and boss Johnny (Lee J. Cobb) in the audience, from Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, 1954.

Terry (Marlon Brando), the ex-fighter who unwittingly set up the murder of her longshoreman brother, and distraught, Catholic-educated Edie (Eva Marie Saint) in their famous conversation in the saloon from Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, 1954, from Budd Schulberg's screenplay.

From Budd Schulberg’s script based on Malcolm Johnson’s articles, director Elia Kazan’s blinding opening, Lee J. Cobb the crooked union boss, Marlon Brando as longshoreman Terry, Rod Steiger his slick brother, then John Hamilton, Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint, in On The Waterfront, 1954.

TCM Remembers the celebrated actor Karl Malden, who died July 1, 2009 at the age of 97.

After a meeting broken up by thugs, ex-fighter and union enforcer Terry (Marlon Brando) with Edie (Eva Marie Saint), who doesn't know the role he played in the murder of her brother, the bit with the glove a famous ad-lib, shot on location in Hoboken, NJ, in Elia Kazan's On The Waterfront, 1954.

Eight Academy Awards went to On The Waterfront (1954) about a stevedore (Marlon Brando) thinking of informing on the mob.

From the defining scene in Elia Kazan's landmark picture, crooked union lawyer Charley (Rod Steiger) with an offer and a threat to his ex-fighter longshoreman brother Terry (Marlon Brando), in On The Waterfront, 1954.