@movienight-with-Josh-BarryOn the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan from a script by Budd Schulberg and starring Marlon Brando, is a crime drama set among longshoremen on the Hoboken, New Jersey docks. It combines a morality tale about courage and conscience with a realistic portrait of union corruption, elevated by Leonard Bernstein’s score and some of the most influential acting and writing of Hollywood’s “method” era.

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryOn the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan from a script by Budd Schulberg and starring Marlon Brando, is a crime drama set among longshoremen on the Hoboken, New Jersey docks. It combines a morality tale about courage and conscience with a realistic portrait of union corruption, elevated by Leonard Bernstein’s score and some of the most influential acting and writing of Hollywood’s “method” era.

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryJaws (1975), directed by Steven Spielberg from Peter Benchley’s novel, follows a small‑town police chief, a shark expert, and a salty fisherman as they hunt a great white shark terrorizing the New England resort town of Amity Island. Its tight story, John Williams’ iconic score, and a famously troubled production combined to create the prototype modern summer blockbuster.