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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story.
New York Sun reporter Malcolm "Mike" Johnson was sent to cover the murder of a West Side boss stevedore and discovered a "waterfront jungle, set against a background of New York's magnificent skyscrapers"...
Author
Publisher
Chamberlain Bros
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents a compilation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper articles that explored the role of organized crime on the New York waterfront, documenting a violent underworld and its influence on New York politics, industry, and society, and inspired thefilm "On the Waterfront."
Series
Criterion collection ; 647
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
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