The Caldwell Public Library will host Pizza and a Movie Night on Wednesday, September 12th, at 6:00 PM. Our feature film will be On the Waterfront starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Eva Marie Saint.
On the Waterfront was directed by Elia Kazan with a soundtrack score composed by Leonard Bernstein. The film received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. It is Leonard Bernstein's only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs. The New York Times critic A. H. Weiler hailed the film as a masterpiece, calling it "an uncommon powerful, exciting, and imaginative use of the screen by gifted professionals."
On the Waterfront was based on a 24-part series of articles in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson, titled "Crime on the Waterfront". The series won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. The stories detailed widespread corruption, extortion and racketeering on the waterfront of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The film was shot on location in Hoboken, NJ. In 1989, this film was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
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Reservations are required! Please visit the Library or call 973-226-2837 to reserve a seat.
For more information about library programs and events, please call the Caldwell Public Library at 973-226-2837. The Library is located at 268 Bloomfield Avenue, Caldwell, NJ.
