Top cast:Valdemar Psilander,Poul Reumert,Ebba Thomsen
Director:Wilfred Lucas
Genre:Romance
Region:Lebanon
Year:1999
Storyline:Meeting with Captain Lesgate - Tony""s Long-Winded Description of His Troubled Marriage:Captain Lesgate (Anthony Dawson) arrived - revealing himself as a thin, mustached man wearing a drab trenchcoat (with a high collar) and a checked jacket.Harry: What?Amy: Like, uhm, telling me about yourself.Your secrets? (She smiles)Harry: I don""t have any secrets.Amy: (She points to herself)I""myour secret.You do have secrets, Harry? I know you do.Sometimes you come over here and you don""t tell me.Once I saw you up by the staircase, hiding and watching for a whole hour.(Harry appears embarrassed) You think you""re gonna catch me at something, you know? I know when you come over.Nothin"" at all.Just a little ol"" spastic colon and that""s all." Maggie ells her admiring father-in-law: "That""s the best birthday present of all."After getting a ride back home with Maggie, the crochety old Big Daddy, an immense rotund man, has a new lease on life with a clean bill of health: "Well, I""m gonna live, Maggie, I""m gonna live.When she wrestles with him for the tab, he first teases her, withholding the tab from her.But when he learns she""s "Joey Doyle""s sister," he gives her the working tab.She gives it to her humiliated father so he can work.Father Barry asks he rejected men who have been denied work: "What do you do now?...Is his all you do, just take it like this?...Huh? What about your union?" He is told that the lawless local union is mob-controlled by Johnny Friendly: "The waterfront""s tougher, Father, like it ain""t part of America.Its fate appeared to follow the same legacy as many other classics that were butchered, recut, corrupted and lost, such asGreed (1924),The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), andThe Lady From Shanghai (1948).