Reviewed by Jameson Macaluso. Viewed on DVD. On the Waterfront, is director Elia Kazan’s 1954 realistic American drama depicting the violence, corruption, extortion, racketeering and mob rule among the Longshoremen of New York City’s waterfront. Filmed on location across the Hudson River from Manhattan, on the rooftops, in the cargo holds and through the neighborhoods … Continue reading On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954): USA