rando gives his greatest performance as a young longshoreman who comes to political consciousness and helps oust a corrupt, mob-controlled union from the docks. That theme is now a little dated, but the yearning love affair between Brando's roughneck and Eva Marie Saint's hesitant convent girl is as fresh and poignant as it was a half-century ago, when TIME dismissed Kazan’s powerfully realistic film as no more than "a shrewd piece of screen journalism."—R.S.