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Waterfront

Jul 26, 1950
80 min
Drama
6.4/ 10
11 votes

Overview

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

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6.4/10
11 votes
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6.4/10
471 votes
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"THE DESIRES AND LONELINESS of seafaring men and their women!"

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Paul Soskin Productions

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