Editing On the Waterfront (section)

==Adaptations==
In the same year that the film was released, Budd Schulberg published a novel simply entitled ''Waterfront'' based on his script. In the novel Terry Malloy dies. It is  more heavily focused on the priest who stands up to the mob, and narrated in first person by him.

In 1984, the film script was adapted to stage by Schulberg, opening on Broadway in November. It had several technical innovations for the time, including lasers, filmlike scenic dissolves and sounds that enveloped the audience. As with Schulberg's earlier novel, the motivations of Father Barry are made more explicit, and the ending is less happy.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/20/theater/on-the-waterfront-adapted-for-stage.html |title=On the Waterfront adapted for stage |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Eleanor Blau |date=March 20, 1984 |access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref> It was revised in 1995 and lasted for only 8 performances, losing $2.6 million, a record on Broadway for a non-musical at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=May 8, 1995|page=8|title=Broadway's Bombs}}</ref>

The Indian films ''[[Kabzaa (1988 film)|Kabzaa]]'' (1988), ''[[Ghulam (film)|Ghulam]]'' (1998) and ''[[Sudhandhiram]]'' (2000) are inspired by ''On the Waterfront''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/may/19copy.htm|title=Whose movie is it anyway?|date=19 May 2003|website=[[rediff.com]]}}</ref>

A 2009 British stage production was directed by [[Steven Berkoff]], who also played Johnny Friendly, with Simon Merrells as Terry.  It played at the [[Theatre Royal, Haymarket]] in London, after the [[Nottingham Playhouse]] and the [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/waterfrontTRH-rev | title=Theatre review: On the Waterfront at Theatre Royal, Haymarket }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://playbill.com/article/on-the-waterfront-makes-west-end-stage-premiere-jan-28-com-157389 | title=On the Waterfront Makes West End Stage Premiere Jan. 28 }}</ref>