Elia Kazan

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn…; Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
Gentleman's Agreement (1947): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Gregory Peck; Gregory Peck stars in this Academy Award winning melodrama about a writer who, for the sake of research, pretends to be Jewish and becomes a victim…
Panic in the Streets (1950): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…; Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter…; Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
Viva Zapata! (1952): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn; Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
On the Waterfront (1954): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb…; Brooding tour–de–force with Marlon Brando in his prime as the square–jawed misfit entangled in corrupt union politics. Winner of 8…
East of Eden (1955): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey; James Dean's acting debut electrifies the screen in this emotionally charged drama about two brother's rivalry for the love of their father. Based on…
Baby Doll (1956): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker; After success with STREETCAR, Kazan tackled another squalid Tennessee Williams tale of sex, jealousy and obsession. Karl Malden, Eli Wallach and…
Face in the Crowd, A (1957): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau…; Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
Wild River (1960): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet; Romantic drama focused around an Authority agent (played with controlled complexity by Montgomery Clift) who meets with resistance and a fair share…
Splendour in the Grass (1961): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle…; Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
Arrangement, The (1969): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway; Advertising exec Kirk Douglas follows a mid–life suicide attempt with some desperate hi–jinks and a cry of rage at his hollow life.…
Visitors, The (1972): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods…; Tense chamber piece has Woods as a returned Vietnam Vet holidaying with his wife and son when two fellow ex–soldiers turn up unannounced.…
Last Tycoon, The (1976): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis…; Star–studded attempt to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, itself based on the life of early Hollywood mogul Irving Thalberg.…

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