Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards & marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances Brando is Terry Malloy a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings Terry intends to keep his mouth shut & his job safe But when Edie (Eva Marie-Saint) the dead man's beautiful sister comes to town he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union & his loyalty to Edie