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On the Waterfront, a Rare card
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
On the Waterfront quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the On the Waterfront card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ score was composed by Leonard Bernstein, his only original film score.
Answer
musical. The musical score was composed by Leonard Bernstein, his only original film score. From the On the Waterfront article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
On the Waterfront is a ____ American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg.
Answer
1950s. On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. From the On the Waterfront article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
The Marriage of Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro 77 · On the Waterfront 74 · Gabby Barrett 71 · Catherine I of Russia 67 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It stars Marlon Brando, and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut.
- The musical score was composed by Leonard Bernstein, his only original film score.
- The black-and-white film was inspired by "Crime on the Waterfront" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The On the Waterfront article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get On the Waterfront
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, On the Waterfront (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Illustrator unknown. "Copyright 1954 – Columbia Pictures Corp. "., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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