Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb and Eva Marie Saint in this crime drama about union corruption on the docks.

Very much a beast of its time. All the sweaty method machismo and didactic preaching. It looks wonderful and the scenes between Brando and Eva Marie Saint have heat and hope. The classic Contender dialogue between Marlon and Rod Steiger still causes the hairs to go up on the back of your neck. But there is that unmistakable lingering bad taste that this is a movie justifying snitching. Nobody likes a grass, Elia.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Chase (1966)

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