He was called before the committee and asked to name names of suspected communists. HUAC actually caused a lot more trouble for Miller. The film became the famous On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando. Kazan ended up going ahead with a different screenwriter. Miller said, heck no, and quit the project. Miller didn't end up writing the screenplay, though, because his arch nemesis, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), led by Senator Joe McCarthy, pressured Columbia Pictures to turn the evil mob bosses into evil communists. It was a bad scene – evil mob bosses, corrupt union leaders, you name it. It was to be called The Hook, and was supposed to expose all the corruption going down in the docks of Red Hook. The celebrated director, Elia Kazan, Miller's long time friend and collaborator, had hired Miller to write a screenplay. Playwright Arthur Miller first heard the story while doing research in Red Hook, Brooklyn for a totally different project. A View from the Bridge tells the story of Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman, whose incestuous love for his niece drives him to his own destruction.
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