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On the Waterfront: 70 Years On

Was this Marlon Brando-starring masterpiece Elia Kazan’s apologia for informing during the McCarthy communist witch hunts?

Simon Dillon
Fanfare
Published in
5 min readMay 7, 2024

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Credit: Sony

Warning: Contains spoilers

Rewatching the famous “could have been a contender” speech, delivered by Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan’s…

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com