On the Waterfront Page #3
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- 1954
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EXT—LANDING BELOW TENEMENT ROOF—NIGHT
Forming a circle around Joey are KAYO NOLAN, a hard little nut of a
man; TOMMY COLLINS, a young longshoreman friend of Joey's; LUKE, a
giant Negro; MOOSE, a good-natured, hulking longshoreman; and others.
The shot favors POP DOYLE, a short , stocky man with a small potbelly.
POP:
I kept tellin' him: don't say nothin',
keep quiet, you'll live longer.
POLICE SERGEANT:
(to another cop)
Tell the ambulance to hurry.
SHOT OF ONLOOKERS—ROOFTOP—NIGHT
Including a hard-faced longshoreman, a careworn woman in her middle
thirties (Mrs. Collins) and Mutt.
LONGSHOREMAN:
He ain't gonna need no ambulance.
FATHER BARRY, a lean, tough, West Side priest, climbs a wooden fence
and approaches the crowd.
FATHER BARRY:
(roughly)
One side. Le'me through!
MEDIUM SHOT—MRS. COLLINS, MUTT—ROOFTOP—NIGHT
MRS. COLLINS
(to Father Barry as he passes)
Same thing they did to my Andy five years ago.
CLOSE ON BODY OF JOEY—TENEMENT LANDING—NIGHT
Father Barry prays. A police sergeant turns to Pop.
SERGEANT:
You're Pop Doyle, aren't you, the boy's father?
POP:
(angrily)
That's right.
SERGEANT:
He fell over backward from the roof—
like he was pushed. Any ideas?
POP:
(aggressively)
None.
MRS. COLLINS
(coming forward)
He was the one longshoreman with guts
enough to talk to them crime investigators.
Everybody knows that.
POP:
(wheeling angrily and pushing her away)
Who asked you. Shut your trap.
If Joey'd taken that advice he wouldn't be—
(starts to crack up)
MRS. COLLINS
(protesting)
Everybody know that...?
POP:
I said shut up!
SERGEANT:
Look, I'm an honest cop. Give me
some leads and I'll...
Pop stands silently, choked with grief.
KAYO NOLAN:
Listen— don't bother him. Right, Moose?
MOOSE:
(nodding)
One thing I learned— all my life on the waterfront—
dont ask no questions— don't answer no questions.
Unless you... .
(looks at the body and stops)
LUKE:
(reverently)
He was all heart, that boy.
Enough guts for a regiment.
POP:
(in a bitter rage)
Guts— I'm sick of guts. He gets a book in the pistol
local and right away he's gonna be a hero. Gonna
push the mob off the dock singlehanded... .
FATHER BARRY:
(comfortingly)
Take it easy, Pop. I know it's rough
but time and faith are great healers... .
CLOSE—ON EDIE—TENEMENT LANDING—NIGHT
Joey's sister, a fresh-faced, sensitive young Irish girl who has been
kneeling over the body. She looks up and around at the Father in bitter
grief.
EDIE:
Time and faith... . My brother's dead and you
stand there talking drivel about time and faith.
FATHER BARRY:
(taken aback)
Why Edie, I—
EDIE:
(plunging on)
How could anyone do this to Joey. The best in the
neighborhood... . everybody said it, not only me.
Who'd want to harm Joey? Tell me— who? -- who?
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