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 (1950)
THE DESIRES AND LONELINESS of seafaring men and their women!
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Robert Newton
Peter McCabe

Kathleen Harrison
Mrs. McCabe

Avis Scott
Nora McCabe

Susan Shaw
Connie McCabe
RN
Robin Netscher
George Alexander McCabe

Richard Burton
Ben Satterthwaite

Kenneth Griffith
Maurice Bruno

Olive Sloane
Mrs. Gibson

James Hayter
Ship's Captain