What is the best Elia Kazan film of all time?

A reputation that still splits rooms, and nineteen features to argue over: Broadway adaptations, studio message pictures, two Brando landmarks.

1. 1
   A Streetcar Named Desire

   Kazan's 1951 film of the Tennessee Williams play, with Brando and Vivien Leigh.
   1000pts
2. 2
   On the Waterfront

   The 1954 dockworkers drama that won eight Oscars and gave Marlon Brando his 'I coulda been a contender' scene.
   970pts
3. 3
   Boomerang!

   A 1947 semi-documentary courtroom thriller based on an unsolved Connecticut murder.
   694pts
4. 4
   The Arrangement

   A 1969 drama of an advertising executive's breakdown, adapted from Kazan's own novel.
   582pts
5. 5
   Gentleman's Agreement

   The 1947 Best Picture winner in which a reporter poses as Jewish to report on antisemitism.
   582pts
6. 6
   Panic in the Streets

   A 1950 noir manhunt through New Orleans for a plague carrier.
   582pts
7. 7
   Man on a Tightrope

   A 1953 drama about a Czech circus troupe planning an escape across the border.
   513pts
8. 8
   Wild River

   A 1960 drama of a TVA official evicting a widow from her Tennessee island.
   513pts
9. 9
   A Face in the Crowd

   A 1957 satire in which a drifter played by Andy Griffith becomes a demagogue of live television.
   434pts
10. 10
    The Sea of Grass

    A 1947 western melodrama with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn on the New Mexico range.
    434pts
11. 11
    Viva Zapata!

    The 1952 biopic of Emiliano Zapata, written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando.
    434pts
12. 12
    America America

    Kazan's 1963 film of his uncle's journey from Anatolia to the United States.
    434pts
13. 13
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    Kazan's 1945 debut, a tenement family saga adapted from Betty Smith's novel.
    342pts
14. 14
    Pinky

    A 1949 drama about a light-skinned Black nurse passing for white in the South.
    342pts
15. 15
    The Last Tycoon

    Kazan's 1976 farewell, a Fitzgerald adaptation with Robert De Niro as a studio boss.
    342pts
16. 16
    Baby Doll

    The 1956 Tennessee Williams black comedy condemned by the Legion of Decency on release.
    233pts
17. 17
    The Visitors

    A 1972 low-budget drama about two Vietnam veterans visiting the man who testified against them.
    233pts
18. 18
    Splendor in the Grass

    A 1961 drama of thwarted teenage love in 1920s Kansas, with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty.
    233pts
19. 19
    East of Eden

    The 1955 Steinbeck adaptation that made James Dean a star in his first leading role.
    103pts