On the Waterfront

Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film Budd Schulberg's <I>On the Waterfront</I> is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power grittiness and truth of that great production but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility of hope and defeat of love and betrayal. In his Introduction Mr. Schulberg writes: The film's concentration on a single dominating character brought close to the camera eye made it esthetically inconvenient if not impossible to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective...suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York.