From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 1, 2007

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Drama, History

Original Title

From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

Director

Haskell Wexler

Description

Marvel at the all-star musical cast of Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie, many other musicians as well as an audience of one-thousand longshore workers. Bridges was an immigrant working stiff who loved Karl Marx and Jack London, and who fought government persecution for 21 years to become an American citizen. He had a profound effect on the American labor movement, at the same time counting Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Paul Robeson among his friends, He was revered by some, hated by others --a hero or the devil incarnate--but he faced it all with a twinkle in his eye. As Harry Bridges, Ian Ruskin takes you on a captivating journey through some of America's most exciting and turbulent years.