I saw this long ago & very lucky, guessed it's partial name "Waterfront" - Richard Burton has one of the leading roles & you can see he is a GREAT actor even then. Not sure was this his first or one of his first movies @ 25 years old. He was NOMINATED 7 times for an Academy Award but NEVR WON. Did they punish him for his affair with Elizabth? IMO he got famous for that, moreso than any movie. I recall it vividly - they made a HUGE stink out of it. But overall, was the reason that his movies were not the best, even though he was great. I loved him in 'the Robe' but most other items I see like 'Equs' & 'the Spy Who Came in from the Cold' & even 'Cleopatra' don't interest me. Anyway, this is worth seeing, it's serious but for me, hits the spot. There's 2 villains, the guy who played 'Captain Hook' as an uncaring father who left his family for 14 years & returned only because he lost his job right there at that dock....& this sleazy rich man who's courting the other sister {who lords it over her older sister sarcastically as her fince, Burton, has been unemployed for 2 years & can't afford anything & they can't get married} & trying to get sex & after her Dad commits a murder, her reputation is ruined, he tells her no marriage {he wasn't goig to marry her anyway}, just give me sex or it's all off. Can't recall what she does but it IS interesting, the characters are strong.
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