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Ballantine 199 Paperback Original (1957). First Printing. Movie Tie-In.

The film “Edge of the City” (1957) was bold for its time, in its depiction of an interracial friendship between two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter played by John Cassavetes, and Tommy Tyler, a freight car loader played by Sidney Poitier. Their growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a vicious bully and racist played by Jack Warden. The movie trailer shows the tense and often violent confrontations between these characters:

 

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Uploaded on April 3, 2014
Taken on April 1, 2014