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Reel Law

Legal Moments at the Movie House

February 2013

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"You just dug your own grave. Go fall in it. You're dead on this waterfront, and every waterfront from Boston to New Orleans."

- Corrupt union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb, left) threatens Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando, right) after he testified at a crime commission hearing that Friendly killed another dockworker in On The Waterfront (1954).

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