The language used by Miller in A View from the Bridge consists of stage directions and dialogue. A View From The Bridge could use a remake, especially with the topic of immigration reform center stage among issues now.The use of language in A View from the Bridge Sidney Lumet who seemed to shoot all of his films in the city he loved shows a different and at times terrifying side of New York. But you can't deny that Raf Vallone authentically Italian is just great in this role.
I would like to have seen him doing it as Heflin was one of the best and most under-appreciated actors around. A View From The Bridge was done on Broadway with Van Heflin playing Eddie Carbone. Miller was a most unfriendly witness and his play on the docks affirms the code that stool pigeons are the lowest form of life. When Budd Schulberg wrote On The Waterfront, part of it was an expiation and justification of Schulberg being a friendly witness at the House Un American Activities. Lawrence either is naive or just puts it out of her mind, but Stapleton is seeing it all too clear. But it's in the front of your mind that Vallone is building up an unreasoning hatred of Sorel because of his attraction for his niece. Always in the back of your mind is that Sorel is thinking this is a fast track to citizenship. The attraction between Sorel and Lawrence is instant. Or like Sorel he wants to immigrate here permanently. They arrive here like so many other illegals looking for work, maybe to send money back home like Pellegrin does for his family. French players Raymond Pellegrin and Jean Sorel are brothers and related distantly to the Carbones. As is apparently the custom they help out friends and family from the old country which in this case is Sicily. Raf Vallone stars as Eddie Carbone a veteran dock worker who lives with wife Maureen Stapleton in Red Hook near his work and their niece Carol Lawrence who made her big screen debut here. It sure has an international cast though. My guess is that Arthur Miller couldn't get the financing here and next to On The Waterfront, A View From The Bridge looks kind of cheap. Although directed by American Sidney Lumet and shot on the Brooklyn docks in Red Hook, A View From The Bridge is a French production with some shooting in Rome.
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