On the Waterfront

Name: On the Waterfront
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Budd Schulberg
ISBN: 9781580814898

Author: Budd Schulberg

Narrator: Jeffrey Donovan, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 01/01/2003

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

Terry Malloy, the “seemingly soulless street survivor,” unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg’s searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who “could’a been a contender.”

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Scott Atkinson, Jake Bern, Maurice Chasse, Richard Cox, Kevin Daniels, Bruce Davison, Jeffrey Donovan, Hector Elizondo, Dave Florek, Chris Hatfield, Jon Matthews, Nick Offerman, Rebecca Pidgeon, Stephen Ramsey, David Selby, Josh Stamberg, Tegan West.

About Budd Schulberg

Budd Schulberg wrote On the Waterfront, made into a movie starring Marlon Brando, and The Harder They Fall, made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. He won an Oscar for the screenplay of On the Waterfront, several awards for his film A Face in the Crowd, and a Tony nomination for his Broadway adaptation of The Disenchanted. He attributed his ability to adapt his own work to stage or screen to his upbringing in Hollywood, where his father ran a major motion-picture studio. He died in 2009 at the age of ninety-five.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Franklin on April 01, 2018

Marlon you didn't do it justice. I've always said that my favorite movie was "On The Waterfront" and Brando was my favorite actor and they still are but after reading the book I can only say that they didn't come close to the book. There was much more to the Terry Malone character; Carl Malden never......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on August 21, 2015

Dock Workers. Life is harsh working on the docks where people are poor and working as a dock worker is the only job that pays. A mob controls the union and who gets the jobs. On The waterfront is about the people who work there where their lives happen in slums. Most are Irish and priests and the Ca......more

Goodreads review by Ray on November 05, 2020

The audiobook edition I listened to was the full-cast recording of the play "On the Waterfront" by the LA Theater Workshop. The story is probably familiar to most, since it's based on a Pulitzer Prize winning story about racketeering, corruption, and union violence among longshoremen on the docks in......more

Goodreads review by Robert on November 03, 2012

No discussion of On the Waterfront, the novel, can be undertaken without at least mention of the movie. The book was highly praised when it was released in 1955, a year after the film received eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. On its own, the novels was a be......more