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On the Waterfront: A Screenplay
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Southern Illinois Univ Pr
Publication date January 1, 1981
Pages 168
Binding Paperback
Edition 1
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780809309573
ISBN-10 0809309572
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $8.95
Other format details university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Presents Schulberg's classic portrait of the New York waterfront and the longshoremen who struggle in a world controlled by organized crime
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On the Waterfront came perilously close to never being produced because as Darryl Zanuck put it when he rejected the script, “Who’s going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?”

 

Zanuck could not see that On the Water­front was a natural sequel to The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley. His rejec­tion of the script sent Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg on a seemingly hopeless quest for a producer to make their film.

 

Both Kazan and Schulberg had been bit­ten by the waterfront bug, Kazan having aborted a project he had begun with Arthur Miller, and Schulberg having a possible dra­matization of Malcolm Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, Crime on the Waterfront, fail to materialize. With their decision, Schulberg went down on the docks to research the more than 750 miles of shoreline containing 1,800 piers.

 

Over a year of research had gone into the script Schulberg and Kazan carried from stu­dio, to studio, to studio. Their despair was made whole when the Hollywood Reporter re­ported their grim odyssey in a gossip col­umn. They retreated to their hotel room, and Schulberg booked an early flight East. At this point Sam Spiegel dropped in to invite them to a party in his room across the hall and learned of their plight. A story session in Spiegel’s room at seven in the morning with Spiegel in bed, sheet and blanket drawn up under his chin, wrested a murmured, “I’ll do it. We’ll make the picture.”



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About: On the Waterfront came perilously close to never being produced because as Darryl Zanuck put it when he rejected the script, “Who’s going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?
from Southern Illinois Univ Pr (January 1, 1981)
9780809309566 | details & prices | List price $24.95
About: Presents Schulberg's classic portrait of the New York waterfront and the longshoremen who struggle in a world controlled by organized crime
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Book cover for 9780809309573
 
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1 edition from Southern Illinois Univ Pr (January 1, 1981)
9780809309573 | details & prices | 168 pages | List price $8.95
About: Presents Schulberg's classic portrait of the New York waterfront and the longshoremen who struggle in a world controlled by organized crime

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