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On the Waterfront (1954): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

On the Waterfront is a 1954 crime, drama, romance film directed by Elia Kazan. It scores 8.1 on IMDb, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 91 on Metacritic, 7.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 81 while Metacritic critics give it 91, a gap of 10 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 4 of 76 films from 1954 in our catalog and number 16 of 1,511 romance films.

Billed cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning.

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