Waterfront is a 1934 crime drama novel by the British writer John Brophy. It is set in his native Liverpool amongst the world of dockworkers. In 1950 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Richard Burton and Susan Shaw. Crowley, Tony. Scouse: A Social and Cultural History. Liverpool University Press, 2012. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. Watson, George & Willison, Ian R. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. CUP, 1972.
Adaptations (1)
Waterfront was adapted into a 1950 film.
Waterfront1950 · film · 80 min · dir. Michael Anderson · IMDb ↗IMDb6.4When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
