Friday Matinee: On the Waterfront

June: Classics

June 6 - On the Waterfront [1954]: NR, 1h 48m

Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).

June 14 – Casablanca [1942]: PG, 1h 42m

June 21 – Breakfast at Tiffany's [1961]: NR, 1h 55m

June 28 – Some Like it Hot [1959]: NR, 2h 01m