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With: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper, Edward Platt, Steffi Sidney, Marietta Canty, Virginia Brissac, Beverly Long, Ian Wolfe
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Written by: Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray
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Directed by: Nicholas Ray
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and thematic elements
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Running Time: 111
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Date: 27/10/1955
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Tearing Me Apart
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
James Dean clicked with director Nicholas Ray in a big way on Rebel
Without a Cause (1955); Dean may have received Oscar nominations
for his other two major performances, but this is his signature role.
You may remember that Dean wears a leather jacket in this film, like
all good rebels should, but you'd be incorrect; he wears a
heart-on-his-sleeve red jacket, far more tormented than cool.
Ray had a
talent for finding life's most desperate emotions and expressing them
visually. Hence this full-color, widescreen masterpiece gives us
remarkable images like the toy gorilla and Jim Backus' apron, the hot
rod race and the Planetarium at night.
Natalie Wood is the good girl
who is smitten by Dean's Jimmy Stark, and Sal Mineo is the sensitive
kid Plato, who latches onto the new couple like a set of surrogate
parents he desperately needs.
The film received three Oscar
nominations: Mineo for Best Supporting Actor, Wood for Best Supporting
Actress and Ray for Best Story. In the early 1980s, it was selected as
one of Joe Bob Briggs' 32 Greatest Drive-In Movies of All Time.
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