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www.toxicuniverse.com - : Originally inspired by a newspaper story about troubled teens in the slums, landmark film Rebel Without a Cause showcases legendary cult figure James Dean in his definitive role. Filmed in 1955 and decidedly dated when watching it nearly 50 years later, this period piece represents the best Hollywood film about rebellious and alienated youth of the 1950's. more...
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www.filmthreat.com - : There ought to be some sort of law that states something to the effect of the following. If you have a role in a dramatic movie deemed to be a classic, you shouldn't be allowed to then go ahead and typecast yourself in a silly sit-com. It kind of ruins things when you watch James Dean, the most dramatic of even the method actors, emote his heart out opposite Mr. Howell and the Chief from Get Smart. Dean was so out on a wire here that they often had to put swelling dramatic music over his scenes to discourage people from laughing. It can't help things when half of those scenes are opposite Mr. Magoo. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Because of his outstanding, widely acclaimed performance in ''East of Eden'' and because of the additional public interest generated by his recent, deplorable, tragic death, the name of James Dean in the title role should in itself assure a profitable exhibition life for this celluloid treatise on juvenile delinquency. Just how the average ticket buyer will receive the picture probably will depend upon individual conceptions of just what causes and constitutes the current, much-publicized confusion and lawlessnes that reportedly plagues the teenage generation. To those who think that the problem incorporates heavy psychiatric connotations and is so hydra-headed that the run-o'-mill layman and parents have no conception of underlying motivations, doubts and influences, the film may make sense. Others, and presumably they will be a vast majority, may be prone to opine that the story has few, if any, believable characters, situations or passages of dialogue. more...
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