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“On the Waterfront,” which was released in 1954, is a film on societal issues such as famine and homelessness. The film is based on a series of essays published in the New York Sun by Malcolm Johnson. Terry Malloy, a former soldier fighting a coalition of corrupt New York waterfronts, is played by Marlon Brando in the film “On the Waterfront.”