A View From the Bridge

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A View From the Bridge

1962

1h 50m

Drama

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Eddie Carbone (Raf Vallone) is a dockworker living in Brooklyn with his wife, Beatrice (Maureen Stapleton), and their niece, Catherine (Carol Lawrence). Life in the Carbone household is upended by the arrival of Beatrice's Italian cousins Rodolpho (Jean Sorel) and Marco (Raymond Pellegrin). Though Eddie agrees to shelter the two illegal immigrants, he regrets his decision when Catherine and Rodolpho begin a relationship that stirs up surprising jealousy and ultimately leads to tragedy.

Bosley Crowther

New York Times

11/17/2020

The one great obstruction to the drama -- and a fatal obstruction it becomes -- is the slowly evolving demonstration that the principal character is a boor.

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Janet Graves

Photoplay

11/17/2020

It's a strong domestic drama.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

07/30/2019

This is one of those international films that sometimes turns out very well. This one did.

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Peter Calder

New Zealand Herald

05/05/2016

5/5

It may be on screen, rather than stage, but this is as good a piece of dramatic theatre as you'll see anywhere.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

05/21/2011

B-

Solemn drama.

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05/18/2011

Not as good as the play but still a great movie. My opinion of this movie is high but the only problem is that I can't find it anywhere.

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04/07/2009

Though much of the cast is limited by what seems like phonetic line delivery, they---especially Maureen Stapleton---manage to give strongly felt performance typical of more prominent works by the film's director, the great Sidney Lumet, to whom this earnest picture owes a level of social realism still rare for its time in portraying the environment of a man with an emotional fixation which causes him to alienate himself from his family and arguably us. Like many of Lumet's earliest outings, it's a hard-bitten story, but in this case one that despite its low visibility remains relevant for its sympathetic take on illegals.

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Synopsis

Eddie Carbone (Raf Vallone) is a dockworker living in Brooklyn with his wife, Beatrice (Maureen Stapleton), and their niece, Catherine (Carol Lawrence). Life in the Carbone household is upended by the arrival of Beatrice's Italian cousins Rodolpho (Jean Sorel) and Marco (Raymond Pellegrin). Though Eddie agrees to shelter the two illegal immigrants, he regrets his decision when Catherine and Rodolpho begin a relationship that stirs up surprising jealousy and ultimately leads to tragedy.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Paul Graetz
Screenwriter: Norman Rosten
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 22, 1962, Original
Runtime: 1h 50m