Die Faust im Nacken
Al Pacino, recounting his own memories on first seeing "On the Waterfront", told "Playboy" in a 1979 interview that he concentrated more on the lead actor than the film itself, "I couldn't move. I couldn't leave the theatre. I’d never seen the like of it." Anthony Hopkins said, "When you see Brando in the famous cab scene in "On the Waterfront", it's still breathtaking." In a eulogy for Brando, Jack Nicholson described his display "probably the height of any age", and added that, "You just couldn’t take your eyes off the guy. He was spellbinding."