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Marlon Brando, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint. An ex-boxer tries to find out where he belongs as he lives day to day as a dockworker and struggles against injustice in his NY labor union in this Oscar®-winning film directed by Elia Kazan. Includes audio and image restoration, alternate presentations at different aspect ratios, commentary track with authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young, conversation between Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones, documentary on the director, making-of documentary, new interview with Eva Marie Saint, interview with the director, Contender: Mastering the Method, a 2001 documentary on the most famous scene, new interview with actor Thomas Hanley, new interview with author James T. Fisher about the inspiration for the story, visual essays on the score and on the aspect ratio, original trailer and booklet with essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan’s 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, 1948 Malcolm Johnson article that inspired the film and 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg on 3 DVDs. 1954/b&w/108 min/NR/widescreen.