Further in the American Dream

“On the Waterfront”, 1954 USA, a film by Elia Kazan. A classic drama about the trade unionism’s encountering the controlled system by the corrupt profiteers. What connects them without their knowledge, is their mutual “American Dream”., wealth and prosperity set on the New Yorker waterfront putting the American Dream in a distance future, unreachable for the workers to realise their own American Dream.
Another example which indeed, seems to limit and bordered it only to America is the:” Touch of Evil”, 1958 by Orson Welles. Yet another classic drama set on the American Mexican Border about a corrupt police detective who forced guilty confession and falsifying evidence.
The line saying:” Let’s get back to civilisation”, makes the point of it.
Look at the photographs provided and see if you can place them to the personalities which have been mentioned in blogs of American Dreams...

   Ernest Hemingway, “For Whom the Bell tolls”,
Movie 1943

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”. Movie 1952

Orson Welles, “Touch of Evil”, Movie 1958
Orson Welles and Charlton Heston
Orson Welles

James Truslow Adams, popularising the expression:
” American Dream”

Marlon Brando, “On the Waterfront”, Movie 1954
Marlon Brando, here with Eva Marie Saint

The “American Dream” exists and is accompanied by hardships.

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