Peter McCabe
Search results
Waterfront (also known as Waterfront Women) is a 1950 British black and white drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison and Avis Scott. It was written by John Brophy and Paul Soskin based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Brophy.
A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter, now a woman, is none too pleased at her father's attempted return.
When 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.
Waterfront (also known as Waterfront Women) is a 1950 British black and white drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison and Avis Scott. It was written by John Brophy and Paul Soskin based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Brophy.
When 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.
A few months after WWI a ne'er-do-well sailor abandons his pregnant wife and two young daughters and sails without any intention to return. After fourteen years, fate brings him back to Liverpool where his attempts to reconnect with his family have tragic consequences.
People also ask
Is waterfront based on a true story?
What is the movie on the waterfront about?
Who directed on the waterfront?
Is waterfront a B-movie?
Waterfront, 1950 Adapted from the John Brophy novel of the same name, Waterfront is a melodrama set within the tightly-knit, overcrowded dockland communities at the end of the First World War. As the city’s maritime fortunes decline, the film reveals the unpredictability and harshness of families whose destinies are tied to the sea.
