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Waterfront
Waterfront
Actors: John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell, Terry Frost
Director: Steve Sekely
Genres: Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Military & War
NR     2003     1hr 8min


     
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Actors: John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell, Terry Frost
Director: Steve Sekely
Creators: Robert E. Cline, Charles Henkel Jr., Alfred Stern, Arthur Alexander, Irwin Franklyn, Martin Mooney
Genres: Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Military & War
Sub-Genres: Love & Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Military & War
Studio: Alpha Video
Format: DVD - Black and White
DVD Release Date: 11/18/2003
Original Release Date: 06/10/1944
Theatrical Release Date: 06/10/1944
Release Year: 2003
Run Time: 1hr 8min
Screens: Black and White
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English
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Movie Reviews

Are you the optometrist?
Steven Hellerstedt | 10/17/2004
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Veteran scene stealers J. Carroll Naish and John Carradine star in WATERFRONT, a movie about Nazi spies in America released a year before World War II ended.

Naish plays a San Franciscan optometrist who's an undercover Gestapo spy and Carradine an agent come to deliver a coded message. Unfortunately for all save the plot developers, Naish's little black code book was stolen just yesterday and the message cannot be read without it. The book must be recovered, of course, and what with Carradine and Naish being Nazis, innocents must pay in blood if they dare to stand in their way.

WATERFRONT is a very low budget thriller, and I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of its budget was applied to Naish and Carradine's salaries and half of the rest to pay for the prodigious amount of fog used in most of the outdoor scenes.

For all its humble beginnings, WATERFRONT is quite good. Naish and Carradine got reputations for stealing scenes because they would good actors, and their scenes together constitute the movie's high points. Director Steve Sekely was a Hungarian refuge and an accomplished pro behind the camera. There's nothing clumsy or amateurish about this one.

Of all action movies, war-time propaganda films seem to have the shortest shelf life. After the foreign menace is removed the movie's message becomes irrelevant. Not many of us are much worried about unassuming optometrist's plying their surreptitious trade in a major port city anymore. Still, this one has some life in it, if for no other reason than its inclusion of Naish and Carradine."