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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, ÂWhoâs going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?â
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Zanuck could not see that On the WaterÂfront was a natural sequel to The Grapes of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley. His rejecÂtion of the script sent Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg on a seemingly hopeless quest for a producer to make their film.
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Both Kazan and Schulberg had been bitÂten by the waterfront bug, Kazan having aborted a project he had begun with Arthur Miller, and Schulberg having a possible draÂmatization of Malcolm Johnsonâs 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.
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Over a year of research had gone into the script Schulberg and Kazan carried from stuÂdio, to studio, to studio. Their despair was made whole when the Hollywood Reporter reÂported their grim odyssey in a gossip colÂumn. 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 Spiegelâs room at seven in the morning with Spiegel in bed, sheet and blanket drawn up under his chin, wrested a murmured, ÂIâll do it. Weâll make the picture.â
About: On the Waterfront came perilously close to never being produced because as Darryl Zanuck put it when he rejected the script, ÂWhoâs going to care about a lot of sweaty longshoremen?
About: Presents Schulberg's classic portrait of the New York waterfront and the longshoremen who struggle in a world controlled by organized crime
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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