The negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America
has recommended that the union's members go on strike, perhaps as early as
Monday.
A couple of years before On
the Waterfront was released, its director, Elia Kazan, appeared before the
House Un-American Activities Committee and identified some of his fellow
writers as Communists. Arthur Miller,
who wrote the original screenplay for On
the Waterfront, was himself blacklisted. The film won a slew of Oscars, among them best acting (Marlon Brando and
Eva Marie Saint), best writing (Bud Schulberg, who replaced Miller), best
director and best picture.
The poll, after the jump.
