Requires Blu-ray player.
Wide screen (1.66:1 or 1.85:1); full screen (1.33:1).
Based upon an original story by Budd Schulberg; suggested by articles by Malcolm Johnson.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentary by authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young; New conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones; Elia Kazan: an outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary; Visual essay on the aspect ratio; Trailer; "I'm standin' over here now" (new making of documentary); New interview with Eva Marie Saint; Interview with Elia Kazan from 2001; New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley; Who is Mr. Big? (new interview with author James T. Fisher about the real-life people and places behind the film); Contender: mastering the method (2001 documentary on the film's most famous scene); Leonard Bernstein's score (visual essay). Booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda, Kazan's 1952 defense of his House Un-American Activities Committee testimony, one of the 1948 Malcolm Johnson articles that inspired the film, and a 1953 piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg.
Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; art director, Richard Day ; film editor, Gene Milford ; wardrobe, Flo Transfield ; music by Leonard Bernstein.
Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning, Leif Erickson, James Westerfield, Tony Galento, Tami Mauriello, John Hamilton, John Heldabrand, Rudy Bond, Don Blackman, Arthur Keegan, Abe Simon, Eva Marie Saint.
Blu-ray disc; region A; DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 or mono.
In English with optional subtitles in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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