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A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man’s love affair with that woman’s widowed granddaughter.

The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Cal Trask is particularly unfortunate young man. He sees himself as the black sheep of the family and is still competing with his brother Aaron, who seems to be perfect in almost every way. Aaron is also a favorite of their father Cal desperately wants his father's love and affection. It is a period that led to U.S. entry into the First World War, and these are turbulent times. After his father lost most of his property trying to ship in cold salad in New York, Cal decided to speculate on the harvest of beans and makes a small fortune, but soon realize that you can not buy either his father's love. Cal is finding that his mother lives – on and Aaron was told that she died – and that she is a lady leads to the final, tragic outcome for all three of the men Trask.

Cal Trask je mimořádně nešťastný mladý muž. Vidí sám sebe jako černá ovce rodiny a je stále soupeří s jeho bratr Aron, který se zdá být perfektní v téměř každé cestě. Aron je také jejich otce a oblíbený Cal zoufale chce svého otce a lásku láskou. Je to období, které vedly k americké vstupu do první světové války, a ty jsou bouřlivé časy. Poté, co jeho otec ztratí většinu svého majetku snaží lodí v chladu salát do New Yorku, Cal rozhodne spekulovat o sklizni fazolí a dělá malé štěstí, ale brzy pochopí, že si nemůže koupit svého otce buď miluje. Cal je zjištění, že jeho matka žije – on a Aron bylo řečeno, že jí zemřel – a že ona je paní vede ke konečné, tragický výsledek pro všechny tři z Trask mužů.