On the Waterfront Blu-ray

Release Year: 1954

Runtime: 108 min

Director: Elia Kazan

Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Studios: Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

Special Features:

Disc One:

New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio • Audio commentary by authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young • New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and film critic Kent Jones • Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary • New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others • New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint • Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001 • Contender: Mastering the Method, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene • New interview with writer Jonathan Baumbach • New interview with actor James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film • Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score • Visual essay on the aspect ratio • Trailer

Disc Two:

Alternate presentations of the restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)

Plus:

A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan’s 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, one of the 1948 Malcolm Johnson articles that inspired the film, and a 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg

Technical Specifications:

• DTS-HD Master Audio
• Monoaural
• 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio