# Source Note - On the Waterfront movie card

- Movie title: *On the Waterfront*
- User cue: "The water front - marlin Brando 8 academies 1950"
- Interpreted title: *On the Waterfront*
- Corrected basics: 1954 film; Academy Awards were at the 1955 ceremony; the film received 12 Academy Award nominations and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Eva Marie Saint, and Best Director for Elia Kazan.
- Section: Managing Expectations / Movies
- Date captured: 2026-06-14

## Public sources checked

1. Wikipedia REST summary: `https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/On_the_Waterfront`
   - Captured summary describes *On the Waterfront* as a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.
   - Captured summary lists Marlon Brando as star and notes Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint.
   - Captured summary says the film focuses on union violence and corruption among longshoremen and corruption/extortion/racketeering on the Hoboken, New Jersey waterfront.
2. Wikipedia article source text checked for awards statement:
   - Article text says the film received 12 Academy Award nominations and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan.
3. Academy ceremony page attempted: `https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1955`
   - The public page returned HTTP 403 from this environment, so it was not used as a captured content source.

## Managing Expectations framing

This film belongs on the Movies shelf because it is about conscience under pressure. Terry Malloy is trapped between personal survival, group loyalty, fear, corruption, and the cost of telling the truth. The Managing Expectations lens is: what happens when a man expected to stay quiet has to decide whether dignity is worth the price of speaking?

## Caveat

This is a source-card entry, not a full film review or historical essay. If expanded later, verify production history, awards, quotes, and labor-history context against additional primary or institutional sources.