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Edge of the City is a 1957 American film-noir drama film directed by Martin Ritt in his directorial debut, and starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. Robert Alan Aurthur's screenplay was expanded from his original script, staged as the final episode of Philco Television Playhouse, A Man Is Ten Feet Tall (1955), also featuring Poitier.
Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes) takes a job as a dock laborer and is continually harassed by his tyrannical supervisor, Charles Malik (Jack Warden). Malik knows a secret from Axel's past,...
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- Martin Ritt
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- John Cassavetes
Edge of the City: Directed by Martin Ritt. With John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Kathleen Maguire. The growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.
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A hard-hitting urban drama filmed on the docks of the New York City waterfront, Edge of the City (1957) is a key film of the fifties for several reasons.
- Martin Ritt, Don Kranze
- John Cassavetes
“Edge of the City” is a knife dance on the fringes of the Hays Code and mainstream Hollywood. Martin Ritt’s tale of two stevedores flirts with issues of racial, anti Semitic, and sexual exclusion.
Purchase Edge of The City on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes star as Tommy Tyler and Axel North, an African American man and the white army deserter who become friends in this hard-hitting drama.
