These are seen by several as a jab by Kazan at his previous close friend, Arthur Miller, who along by owning Lillian Hellman was bitterly and openly resentful of Kazan's "betrayal" of film creative person to the HUAC as "communists". On the Waterfront, existence just about the heroic mob rat, is widely considered to become Kazan's guide to his critics. Miller's The Crucible, about the heroic Future England Puritan who chooses to die rather than produce treacherously accusations of witchcraft, is considered a response to Kazan.

pt:On the Waterfront

A irony of On the Waterfront is that its protagonist's (Terry Malloy's) fight against corruption was an divine echo of Arthur Miller's have noted fight against a McCarthyist-era Senate, perhaps around an attempt at healing their torn friendly relationship. Each a Senate of a period, & the made-up mob in the moving picture existence incarnations of an same rather mob mentality. Its labor theme got echoes of socialist sympathies, & though swell plenty disguised was a controversial and resonant function of art, at one time whilst the "red scare" was a large aspect within U.s. life.

A film late was known as "culturally significant" per Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Terry Malloy's line in the film, "You don't understand. I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody instead of a bum, which is what I am", was voted within the 2005 poll by the American Film Institute as the third virtually all memorable line within cinema history [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200506/s1398449.htm].

It was a winner of eight Oscars: Best Actor - Marlon Brando Best Picture - Sam Spiegel, producer Best Supporting Actress - Eva Marie Saint Best Art Direction - Set Decoration, Black-and-White - Richard Day Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - Boris Kaufman Directing - Elia Kazan Film Editing - Gene Milford Writing, Story and Screenplay - Budd Schulberg A film as well received even more, an extra quaternary Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actor - Lee J. Cobb Best Supporting Actor - Karl Malden Best Supporting Actor - Rod Steiger Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture - Leonard Bernstein