Reception Ī View from the Bridge premiered in the United States on Januby Continental Film Distributors, to generally negative reviews. Unlike the play, in which Eddie is stabbed to death with his own knife in a scuffle with his wife Beatrice's cousin Marco toward the end, in the film Eddie commits suicide by plunging a cargo hook into his chest. However, this overture was intended as an accusation of someone being gay, rather than a romantic expression.

The film was the first time that a kiss between men was shown on screen in America, in the sequence in which an intoxicated Eddie Carbone kisses his wife Beatrice's male cousin Rodolfo in an attempt to demonstrate the latter's alleged homosexuality. It was Sidney Lumet's first time directing a film outside the United States. The interiors were shot at a studio in Paris, France. Its exterior sequences were filmed on-location on the waterfront of Brooklyn, New York, where the play and the film take place. While out on bail, Marco goes to the Carbone house and forces Eddie to his knees humiliated before his family and neighbors, Eddie commits suicide by plunging a cargo hook into his chest.Ī View from the Bridge was filmed in separate English and French versions. As the two brothers are led away, Marco spits on Eddie, denouncing him as an informer.Ī waterfront lawyer, Alfieri, succeeds in winning freedom for Rodolpho because of his pending marriage, but Marco is slated for deportation. His desperation only serves to further alienate Catherine, however, and when she and Rodolpho make plans to marry, Eddie betrays both Marco and Rodolpho to the immigration authorities. When Eddie's efforts fail to influence Catherine, he brands Rodolpho a homosexual and degrades him in front of Catherine by kissing him on the lips. Eddie's incestuous love for his niece drives him into cruel criticism of Rodolpho, including the accusation that he is an opportunist who plans to marry Catherine only to obtain his U.S. When two of Beatrice's cousins from Sicily, Marco and Rodolpho, illegally enter the United States and take refuge in Eddie's home, an attraction develops between Catherine and the handsome young Rodolpho. Eddie is a longshoreman on the waterfront, and he and Beatrice have raised 18-year old Catherine from infancy. The Carbones are a working class Italian-American family living in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn - patriarch Eddie, his wife Beatrice, and their niece Catherine. Main article: A View from the Bridge § Synopsis

Miller a view from the bridge