Elia KazanSnitchin' for a Cause The director of On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, made a really controversial decision. And we're not talking "liking Hydrox better than Oreos"-type controversial. We'r...

Budd SchulbergNeeds More Communists? Recycling isn't just for plastic and aluminum, but for movie ideas too. Originally, the famous playwright Arthur Miller (author of Death of a Salesman and The C...

Columbia PicturesIf you're a Hollywood producer, you have a magical tool. It's called "harassing people." Occasionally, this tool destroys other people's movies. But sometimes…it doesn't. When Bu...

So Real Elia Kazan was all about getting real. And no; he didn't sit down his buddies for super-earnest bouts of Real Talk. He didn't go around telling people to snap out of it and choose a career...

Tender Strings, "Dirty" Sax When you listening to the heart-wrenching score of On The Waterfront, you have only one thought.And that thought is, "Wow, I bet the dude who composed this also wrote th...

The fans of On the Waterfront are people who like movies on TCM and the Criterion Collection. It's not a fandom where people dress up like Terry Malloy or Father Barry for Halloween. No one would k...