Direction: Elia Kazan

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he finds himself testifying against union leaders.

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Vivien Leigh · Marlon Brando · Kim Hunter · Karl Malden

Synopsis After her husband's suicide, Blanche, helpless and disoriented, takes refuge in New Orleans at the home of her young sister Stella, married to the brutish Stanley Kowalski. While trying to start a new life for herself, Blanche begins to frequent...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Stathis Giallelis · Frank Wolff · Harry Davis · Elena Karam

Synopsis Based on the early life of Kazan's Greek-immigrant uncle, the film tells the story of the struggles of Stavros Topouzoglou in emigrating to America. First of all, he goes to Constantinople and tries to earn the money he needs for...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Natalie Wood · Warren Beatty · Pat Hingle · Audrey Christie

Synopsis Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' disapproval. Coming from radically different backgrounds -- one wealthy, the other staunchly puritanical --...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast James Dean · Raymond Massey · Julie Harris · Richard Davalos

Synopsis In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Anthony Quinn · Jean Peters · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis Emiliano Zapata is a Mexican peon whose tribal land is stolen under the corrupt administration of Porfirio Díaz. Seeking justice, he and his fellow villagers join the revolutionaries under Madero. Zapata rises to the rank of General in the rebel...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Andy Griffith · Patricia Neal · Lee Remick · Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dorothy McGuire · James Dunn · Joan Blondell · Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis An outstanding film version of Betty Smith's novel about the hardships facing an Irish family living in a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement. McGuire is splendid as the mother, with an Oscar-winning performance by Dunn as her alcoholic husband. Garner won a...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Montgomery Clift · Lee Remick · Jo Van Fleet · Albert Salmi

Synopsis A young idealistic Tennessee Valley Authority administrator, Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift) comes to a small town in Tennessee to enforce the clearing of the land to be flooded by a new dam on the Tennessee River in the early 1930s....

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Richard Widmark · Paul Douglas · Jack Palance · Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Gregory Peck · Dorothy McGuire · John Garfield · Celeste Holm

Synopsis Gregory Peck is an investigative journalist assigned to write about anti-Semitism. Frustrated with cold facts and statistics, he decides to get an insider's view by telling people he is Jewish. An excellent study of the insidious nature of prejudice.

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Eli Wallach · Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis Baby Doll Meighan is a pretty, vacuous Southern 'white trash' gal who at 17 still sleeps in a crib and sucks her thumb. She has been married for two years to ineffectual, bigoted Archie Lee. The couple have not yet...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Dana Andrews · Jane Wyatt · Lee J. Cobb · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Jeanne Crain · Ethel Barrymore · Ethel Waters · William Lundigan

Synopsis Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition,...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Kirk Douglas · Faye Dunaway · Deborah Kerr · Richard Boone

Synopsis Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Walker · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a husband and wife on America's frontier; cattlemen in a "sea of grass". The wife has an affair which produces a child, and she is ostracized from the community. Meanwhile, the farmers watch...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Patrick McVey · Patricia Joyce · James Woods · Steve Railsback

Synopsis Bill Schmidt (James Woods), Martha Wayne (Patricia Joyce) and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson (Steve Railsback) and Tony Rodriguez (Chico Martínez). Mike...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Robert De Niro · Robert Mitchum · Theresa Russell · Ingrid Boulting

Synopsis F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Fredric March · Gloria Grahame · Terry Moore · Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis A based-on-fact account of an obscure, downtrodden little circus troupe and its attempt to escape from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia to freedom in Austria.

Direction John Cromwell · Harold F. Kress · Alfred Hitchcock · Elia Kazan

Synopsis Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.