Pt 2 Smackdown Xtra: On the Waterfront with a Broken Lance
Monday, August 31, 2015 at 10:45PM 
Nathaniel (your host), Brian, Mark, Anne Marie, Manuel and Todd VanDerWerff continue their Smackdown conversation. Here's part two of our 80 minute conversation
THE SMACKDOWN IF YOU MISSED IT
Pt 1 PODCAST - The High & Mighty & Executive Suite
Pt 2 (40 minutes)
00:01 Recap of Part 1 and we continue our On the Waterfront conversation seguewaying to the movie's rawness and experimentation, Elia Kazan personal voice, the influence of New York theater, and the slow death of the studio system
10:00 Broken Lance, Latino actors in Hollywood, Social Message Movies, and a shout out to Natalie Wood (?)
27:30 Thelma Ritter and other Supporting Actresses of 1954
35:45 Sign Off and Thank Yous. Last words from Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversation in the comments.
SUGGESTED READING: We reference two books in this conversation: Mark Harris's instant classic Pictures at a Revolution (which you've probably already read) and a brand new one: Brian Herrera's Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance. Pick those up.
Reader Comments (5)
Both great conversations! I agree that the roles nominated this year were hardly stellar except for Eva Marie's but I really enjoyed three of the films, Executive Suite, Broken Lance and Waterfront so it wasn't painful to revisit them. The High and the Mighty on the other hand.Cripes!! What trash and I'm a huge disaster movie fan so I can't imagine what it was like for people who don't enjoy the genre.
Looking forward to '63 although I'm having trouble finding Tom Jones to rewatch.
I never even HEARD of Olga James. She basically didn't have a career after Carmen Jones.
Interesting to see the take of young people on these movies.
I really enjoyed listening to the comments, it is eye opening to hear the critiques of the commentators on the specific movies and actors and movies in general.
Thank you all, for keeping the love for the movies and actors from the "older" days alive.
Ryan -- i was also like... who? And I've seen Carmen Jones.
Les -- well.... I wouldn't call all of us "young" -I WISH i could still call myself that (40something) but i've always loved old movies even when i was a teenager and realized that you weren't supposed to care about things that came before your time ;)