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Tense drama of frightened men!
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.
Edge of the City
1957 Directed by Martin Ritt
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A Man is Ten Feet Tall, L'Homme qui tua la peur, Ein Mann besiegt die Angst, Nel fango della periferia, Donde la ciudad termina, El hombre que venció al miedo, Um Homem Tem Três Metros de Altura, 도시의 가장자리, Ingen undkommer
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01 Jul 1957
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01 Jul 1957
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04 Jan 1957
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me, proudly: i'm watching this movie to get cultured!
sidney poitier and john cassavetes beam at each other, with smiles brighter than the sun
me, even prouder: yup, there it is! that's the culture!
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such cool, easy chemistry. now i would love to see a version where john and sidney just hang out and nothing bad happens to them.
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“Edge of the City” is a knife dance on the fringes of the Hays Code and mainstream Hollywood.
Martin Ritt’s tale of two stevedores flirts with issues of racial, anti Semitic, and sexual exclusion.
Starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier, “Edge” explores what happens when two men who belong nowhere find a home in each other. Not able to go any farther than hinting at homosexual subtext; Ritt opts to explore the outsider bond between the men through discrimination they each face as a black man and a Jew.
“Edge” was fairly compared on release to fellow dockworker drama “On the Waterfront.” “Edge” has less poeticism than “Waterfront,” but similar political intent. That Ritt must convey a delicate concept only…
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no one told me that this movie is 90% john cassavetes pining after sidney poitier, looking like he's about to cry in every scene because he loves him so much....i am weeping
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Troubled homosexual forcibly befriended by the most charismatic man of all time
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"You go with the men and you're ten feet tall; you go with the lower forms and you are down in the slime."
Forlornly trying to outpace his unlawful past and avoid painful intimacy with his parents in the wake of a family tragedy, Axel Nordmann (John Cassavetes) solicits the relative anonymity of New York City. There he finds work as a stevedore under the aegis of an unseen bigwig on friendly terms with crew leader Charlie Malick (Jack Warden), a nefarious taskmaster who demands a sizable kickback for every hour Axel works. Enter unflappable fellow crew leader and all-around cool guy Tommy Tyler (Sidney Poitier), who not only goes over Charlie's head to get Axel transferred to his own…
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john cassavetes (5’7) playing the bongos while sidney poitier (6’2) and ruby dee dance around their apartment is something that can be so personal. along with the height difference.
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cassavetes and poitier are (rightly) praised by the few people who have seen this, but i want to shout out ruby dee as well, who is excellent as sidney poitier's wife. i feel kind of bad for kathleen macguire, who is purely there so john cassavetes' character won't look too gay and she does not succeed. you can't hide those meaningful, longing glances!
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Whoever decided to let John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier share the same frame, let alone the same film was probably a genius. If not a madman. The level of magnetism these two radiate when they’re on their lonesome is to put it lightly, off the charts. Fixing them together should hardly be allowed.
You see, Cassavetes operates under this boiling pot of stewing rage and hurt, a hissing balloon forever fighting not to pop. With one false glance away from slipping the cool steel gaze and laying his skeletons out for all to see. Poitier plays more by the rules of killing ‘em with kindness, his red eyes alone enough to poke through the black & white visage. To strike fear…
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I am in love with John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier’s interactions in this film and their natural, contagious chemistry. Edge of the City was made *specifically* with all my interests in mind.
3.7/5
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john cassavates b like what if i was only in good films ab masculinity, love, race, and class
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I can’t believe John Cassavetes’ entire brand as an actor was “masculinity is tricky :/” and it fucking worked every time
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