A View From The Bridge (1962)

A dock worker (Raf Vallone) on the Brooklyn waterfront is unnaturally obsessed with his niece (Carol Lawrence) that he helped raise. When two immigrant cousins (Jean Sorel, Raymond Pellegrin) of his wife (Maureen Stapleton) arrive in the U.S., the niece is mutually attracted to the younger one (Sorel) which enrages him. Based on the play by Arthur Miller (DEATH OF A SALESMAN) and directed by Sidney Lumet (DOG DAY AFTERNOON). The film version of Miller's gritty play is like a cousin to the British "kitchen sink" dramas that were popular at the same time but plays out like a Greek tragedy. However, Vallone's character is no Oedipus. He's a loutish bully so he doesn't have the height of a King to fall. Still, Vallone gives a potent performance that almost (but not quite) brings empathy to his longshoreman. As the niece, Carol Lawrence is lovely enough and talented enough that she should have had a better career but she never made another theatrical movie after this though she continued to work on the stage and TV. The rest of the cast is very good too. Although the exteriors were filmed in Brooklyn, the interiors were shot in Paris. With Morris Carnovsky, Vincent Gardenia and Harvey Lembeck.