Aka 'A Man is Ten Feet Tall'. Two labourers (Sidney Poitier and John Cassavetes) face corruption on the New York waterfront and share a bond cutting across society's black/white divide in this gritty "first American film mainly concerned with an interracial friendship" (David Shipman, The Story of Cinema). Martin Ritt makes his screen-directing debut, launching a career of social-conscience moviemaking that includes 'Hud', 'Sounder', and 'Norma Rae'.