Double Feature: ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Director Elia Kazan THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES, 1970, December 8, 2011

Thursday, December 8 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Director Elia Kazan’s stunning adaptation of Budd Schulberg’s account of Hoboken dock-worker life stars Marlon Brando as a has-been fighter who falls in love with the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of the "stool pigeon" he set up. Rod Steiger delivers a wrenching performance as the older brother who helped betray Brando’s chances as a boxer, and Karl Malden is the tough, working-class priest who serves as Brando’s conscience. [35mm]
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THE LIBERATION OF L.B. JONES, 1970, Sony Repertory, 102 min. Like fellow “old school” filmmaker John Huston, director William Wyler proves he’s up to delivering on the promise of a more open New Hollywood with this scorching look at racism and hypocrisy in a Southern small town. Roscoe Lee Browne throws off sparks as rich, black undertaker L.B. Jones, a man cuckolded by his amoral wife (an incandescent Lola Falana) and one of the town’s meanest white cops (Anthony Zerbe). When Jones decides he wants a divorce, he suddenly finds himself taking the brunt of escalating harassment from Zerbe, who wants to keep secret his affair with a black woman. Lee J. Cobb is the town’s D.A., a “decent” man with an ingrained streak of racism. Barbara Hershey is Cobb’s daughter and Lee Majors is her idealistic lawyer husband; a superb Yaphet Kotto plays an angry fugitive with his own axe to grind. Sterling Silliphant and Jesse Hill Ford wrote the screenplay (from Ford’s novel). A surprisingly unflinching, tell-it-like-it-is movie. [35mm]
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