TCM Presents . . . "On the Waterfront" On the Silver Screen

ON THE WATERFRONT, Marlon Brando, 1954

When it comes to Classic Cinema the average viewer usually has only three choices.

1. Wait until the movie hits TCM and pray you're home.
2. Grit your teeth through the skips and jumps and frame freezes on the library copy.
3. Dig out your wallet and actually buy the DVD (blu-ray if you're REALLY lucky).

If you're like me, which hopefully you are, then you've spent more than your fair share of time hoping and waiting for your favorite classic movie to actually hit DVD in a remastered format. There was never really any hope beyond the basic opportunity to view, in this case my favorite classic movie, On the Waterfront (1954) on anything other than your typical television screen on your typical DVD.
Except that TCM has finally, and I do mean finally, done something spectacular.

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