He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954).
This film shared the 1954 Silver Lion prize from the Venice Film Festival with Kazan’s On the Waterfront, Fellini’s La Strada, and Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
This movie is a remake of the 1954 American hit On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando.
At age 9 he watched On the Waterfront, a movie that had a powerful influence on him and inspired him to write his first poems in English.
Clemente was reportedly the inspiration for the character of waterfront boss "Johnny Friendly", played by Lee J. Cobb, in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.
In 1997 it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth greatest American movie of all time.
1949: Malcolm Johnson, New York Sun, "For his series of 24 articles entitled "Crime on the Waterfront" in New York City." (The film On the Waterfront was based on this series of articles.)
Roger Donoghue (November 20, 1930 – August 20, 2006) was a prizefighter who taught Marlon Brando how to box for his role in the 1954 movie On the Waterfront.
It also won a raft of awards for its journalism, design and photography, in the UK and internationally, and secured the former archbishop Richard Holloway and On the Waterfront scriptwriter Budd Schulberg as regular contributors.
Father Barry in On the Waterfront is an upstanding person, although he is seen drinking towards the end of the film.
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The third single "Johnny Friendly" is a homage to the Marlon Brando movie On The Waterfront.
Michael Caine lists Charade as his 4th favorite film of all time, behind only Casablanca, The Third Man, and On the Waterfront.