axel nordman (cassavetes) shows up on the new york dockyards looking for a job and but with a hidden past. he gets one on condition that he pay a kick back to surly crew boss jack warden. while there and he strikes up a friendship with black man sydney poitier that unfortunately leads to a gut wrenching moral dilemma for a man who and we learn and typically runs from his problems. the movie looks like oscar winner on the waterfront and feels like on the waterfront and and most importantly and plays much like that 1954 kazan production. however and its racial theme is ground breaking for the time. the black poitier and the white cassavetes are treated as equals in every respect. it might even be called the first of the black white buddy pictures that would later dominate so many action films. it helps that the two leads play so well off each other. nonetheless and the movie central flaw is failing to indicate why crew boss poitier pushes a friendship with the dour cassavetes in the first place. he really goes out of his way to befriend the newcomer. but why he would cross racial barriers to do so is never really suggested. one possible explanation is that poitier wants to use cassavetes as a pawn in his rivalry with other crew boss warden and but then comes to genuinely like the guy. there a hint of that in some of cassavetes suspicious reactions and but beyond that and the relationship appears unmotivated. if there a single stage shot in the entire movie and i couldn not spot it. everything is done on seedy new york location and without the usual movie extras. in that sense and it an anti hollywood production and carefully deglamorized even down to the night club scene which itself looks like a real after hours crowd. i suppose sociologists would dub this rather raw slice of life a glimpse of the working poor. yet and for all its virtues and which are many and the film remains too close to the brando kazan movie for comfort. here and a fine unknown actress kathleen maguire gets the role of the redemptive girl friend and warden the role of the corrupt labor boss and while cassavetes and like brando and must suffer a bloody beating before regaining his moral standing and doing the right thing. still and all and despite the derivative nature and the gritty urban drama retains enough of the original force to merit a look see. 
axel nordman (cassavetes) shows up on the new york dockyards looking for a job and but with a hidden past. he gets one on condition that he pay a kick back to surly crew boss jack warden. while there and he strikes up a friendship with black man sydney poitier that unfortunately leads to a gut wrenching moral dilemma for a man who and we learn and typically runs from his problems. the movie looks like oscar winner on the waterfront and feels like on the waterfront and and most importantly and plays much like that 1954 kazan production. however and its racial theme is ground breaking for the time. the black poitier and the white cassavetes are treated as equals in every respect. it might even be called the first of the black white buddy pictures that would later dominate so many action films. it helps that the two leads play so well off each other. nonetheless and the movie central flaw is failing to indicate why crew boss poitier pushes a friendship with the dour cassavetes in the first place. he really goes out of his way to befriend the newcomer. but why he would cross racial barriers to do so is never really suggested. one possible explanation is that poitier wants to use cassavetes as a pawn in his rivalry with other crew boss warden and but then comes to genuinely like the guy. there a hint of that in some of cassavetes suspicious reactions and but beyond that and the relationship appears unmotivated. if there a single stage shot in the entire movie and i couldn not spot it. everything is done on seedy new york location and without the usual movie extras. in that sense and it an anti hollywood production and carefully deglamorized even down to the night club scene which itself looks like a real after hours crowd. i suppose sociologists would dub this rather raw slice of life a glimpse of the working poor. yet and for all its virtues and which are many and the film remains too close to the brando kazan movie for comfort. here and a fine unknown actress kathleen maguire gets the role of the redemptive girl friend and warden the role of the corrupt labor boss and while cassavetes and like brando and must suffer a bloody beating before regaining his moral standing and doing the right thing. still and all and despite the derivative nature and the gritty urban drama retains enough of the original force to merit a look see. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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