Rumble on the Docks

1956
Approved
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

293

YOUR RATING

Film Noir Crime Drama

Crime drama concerning the coming-of-age of a Brooklyn-born 17-year old whose loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.Crime drama concerning the coming-of-age of a Brooklyn-born 17-year old whose loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.Crime drama concerning the coming-of-age of a Brooklyn-born 17-year old whose loyalty is torn between his parents' old-fashion values and a local gangster's flashy lifestyle.

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IMDb RATING

5.6/10

293

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The producers put an asterisk after the title in many ads, explaining Rumble as "teenage slang for 'gang war'".

Goofs
Supposedly an establishing shot of a ship at Pier 85 in New York City, in the right foreground is the Ocean Tow, Inc. ship Alaska Spruce, which was a new, early container ship, built in 1952. It carried vans and trailers from west coast ports to Alaska and back.

Quotes
Della: Oh, the waterfront is always so beautiful at night.
Jimmy Smigelski: Yeah, you can't see the garbage floating in the water.

Soundtracks
Get the First Train out of Town
Written by Freddie Bell and Pep Latanzi

User reviews10

Review

Featured review

4/10

Off The Waterfront

If there's such a thing as a parallel universe, this is the campy, boring, egregious version of Kazan's classic. It's all here: A gang named Stompers and a gang named Diggers. They're unrealistically entwined with non-union dockworkers versus the alternative.

There's the quintessential, immigrant parents of the male lead. There's the stereotypical, female love interest. There's even the pre-pubescent kid that gets the plot rolling in the first 15 minutes.

Robert Blake has a minor role. I'm so sorry Hell Town was canceled.