Urban Fable: The Message(s) of On the Waterfront
by Matt Zoller SeitzPage 3 of 3
It's worth noting that High Noon, a political call-to-arms written by blacklisted Communist Carl Foreman out of frustration of Hollywood and America's collective complicity in the blacklist, is the movie most often screened at the White House, beloved by Ronald Reagan as well as Bill Clinton. On the Waterfront is an equally malleable fable. It's a conflicted work by conflicted men, a story fueled not just by defiant assertions that its makers did the right thing, but also by a gnawing fear that they didn't, and that their cowardice, unlike Terry's, can never be redeemed.
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