The Lincoln Theatre is 100 years old this month! That's an entire century of showing movies for our Skagit community!
As part of our Centennial Celebration, we present four "watershed" films from the history of moving pictures -- films that had such tremendous impact that they changed cinema forever!
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April 14: On the Waterfont
Marlon Brando redefined "acting" in On the Waterfront -- moving away from the polished, projecting "theatrical acting" that had dominated cinema up until then, his "method acting" style saw him mumbling,pausing, and feeling in a way that audiences were largely unfamiliar with. The movie that surrounds him is no less naturalistic, as Eva Marie Saint and Karl Malden keep up with Brando every step of the way on real, working docks in Hoboken, New Jersey (rather than a Hollywood set).
On the Waterfront firmly established "social realism" in domestic filmmaking with its combination of acting, location shooting, camerawork, and story, going on to win eight Oscars and thus cementing the new style for decades to come.
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuades him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself -- against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).
"Indisputably one of the great American films, its power undiminished." —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"It's a great film, in no small part due to Marlon Brando’s staggering performance and Leonard Bernstein's blustering score." —Kat Sachs, Chicago Reader
Directed by Elia Kazan
Starring Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
United States | English | 1954 | Drama, Thriller | 108 minutes | Approved
Film Prices
Lincoln Theatre Members get $3.00 off on the following prices when buying tickets at-the-door:
General: $12.00
Seniors, Students, and Active Military: $11.00
Children 12 and under: $9.50
All prices include a $2.00 Preservation Fee that goes directly into our capital account for the preservation of the Lincoln Theatre and its programs