Sensitive but slow-witted loser boxer Terry Mulroy (Marlon Brando) works as a messenger for crime port boss Johnny Friendly (Cobb). Terry is mortified by his inadvertent participation in the murder of a traitorous docker. He feels even more guilt when he falls in love with the murdered man’s sister, Edie Doyle. (Ava Marie Saint)…

A very powerful, emotional, realistic movie, even 50 years after its creation it makes us think deeply about the cost of betrayal.