Talk:On the Waterfront

message: Needs a section summarizing the plot
:Someone needs to expand on Terry's "trechery". I believe he was already against the mob by the time his brother was killed. MC Dupree 16:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW you responded to a comment from 2007 and the editor in question hasn't edited since 2015. That said, I've made further edits to bring the summary into compliance with WP:FILMPLOT. Cheers. DonIago (talk) 16:39, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Summary

message: The article states that Miller's crucible is a response to "On the Waterfront".
The play was written in 1953 and the movie was made in 54.
Is it the other way around ? - Vatsa, June 9, 2005
:Perhaps the article is talking about A View From The Bridge Aioth 03:28, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Miller Connection

message: There are two significant unsubstantiated and unsourced statements in this article. The first is the "Crucible" issue above. That is contradicted by the description of the origins of the movie on filmsite.org, which I have linked.
The second is the reference to a Hoboken informant named Arthur DiVincenzo being the basis of this movie. I could find no reference to DiVincenzo on Google, except for pickups of this article. He is also not mentioned in the book "Waterfront Priest" in either the index or in the introduction by screenwriter Budd Schulberg. 
 
 note* articles can be found regarding di vincenzo's case against
       columbia & his settlement. ref: the jersey journal archieves
       about mid 1970's & current archieves of the hoboken reporter
       as seen in Hoboken History Issue No. 18, published by the  
       Hoboken Historical Museum. article author  Nicholas Acocella 
       editor of the respected insider newsletter New Jersey     
       Politfax.
        *other - columbia pictures, out of  court lawsuits &        
         settlements 1970's.
        *an awarded 25 thousand  to di  vincenzo proving a
         obvious negation of schulbergs denial of anthony 
         di vincenzo's claims.              
        
        
         
        
According to Schulberg, the book was based on the Malcolm Johnson stories and his discussions with Father Corridan. So I am going to remove the references to the Crucible and to DiVincenzo unless someone can produce some verifiable sourcing of that.--Mantanmoreland 17:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual inaccuracies

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:On the waterfront423.jpg

message: Worth including allusions to this film? For example, Lloyd Cole's Rattlesnakes has the lines "She looks like Eve Marie Saint in On The Waterfront / As she reads Simone de Beauvoir in her American circumstance"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.30.146.90 (talk) 15:51, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: References to the film?

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thread_title: File:Kazan-Brando-MarieSaint-Waterfront.jpg Nominated for Deletion

message: The politcal context seems to miss the point.  The movie is based on the pulitzer prize winning articles "crime on the waterfront" published in the New York Sun in 1949 and the waterfront crime commission hearings that followed. The characters are all based on actual indiviuals Joseph Ryan, Father John Corridon, William McCormack.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smarticvs (talk • contribs) 20:09, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual Background 

message: His full name is Anthony "Tony Mike" de Vincenzo (note the 'de' instead if 'di'). Elia Kazan refers to him only as Tony Mike in his autobiography Elia Kazan: A Life, pages 499-500.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.235.146.238 (talk) 21:13, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Arthur DiVincenzo' controversy 

message: I note that in the cast list "Fred Gwynne as Mladen "Slim" Sekulovich"; Mladen Sekulovich was Karl Malden's name before he changed it. Surely not a coincidence, but I don't know where that might figure into the article. Mannanan51 (talk) 21:20, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed that myself and came here to see if anyone else had. You got there first. A joke by Kazan? Hanoi Road (talk) 22:52, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Below information was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 14:13, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material