... intensity of its subject. The film itself is about a longshoreman and ex-prize fighter who confronts the corrupt leaders who run the dockers lives, in a challenge to expose their criminal acts. Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) dreams about being a prizefighter, while nursing his pigeons and running errands at ... witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's gangsters, and later meets the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry (Karl Malden), who tries to convince him to provide information for the courts that will destroy the...

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