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

Frank Mazzola

Robert Foulk

Jack Simmons

Tom Bernard

Nick Adams

Jack Grinnage

Clifford Morris

Almira Sessions

Paul Birch

Dorothy Abbott

Jimmy Baird

Paul Bryar

John Close

Chuck Hamilton

Chuck Hicks

Nelson Leigh

David McMahon

Edward McNally

Peter Miller

House Peters Jr.

Nicholas Ray

Gus Schilling

Bert Stevens

Dick Wessel

Robert B. Williams

Ralph Moratz

Skipper Huerta

David Weisbart

William H. Ziegler

Ernest Haller

Leonard Rosenman

Paul Baxley

Ron Burke

Rod Amateau

Bill Hickman

Carey Loftin

Mushy Callahan

Faye Michael Nuell

Stanley Jones

Malcolm C. Bert

Moss Mabry

William Wallace

Irving Shulman

Stewart Stern

Gordon Bau

Don Alvarado

Robert Farfan

Drama

Rebel Without a Cause

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

Filipe Manuel Neto

**An iconic, culturally significant film that helped immortalize James Dean.**

This is one of those classic films when the theme is teenage rebellion and generational clash. It is undoubtedly good, with a good story and good actors – it is the film that marked James Dean's short career – and continues to be a regular presence in classics cycles and specialty TV channels.

The film explores quite well the difficult relationship between parents and their children within the wealthiest families, and the way in which this tension has a decisive influence on the latter's delinquent behavior. Living in homes where there is truly no love, but rather a well-organized routine, and where parental care is limited to material goods and the act of giving things, these young people accumulate a revolt that they need to express through pranks and mischief that parents choose to ignore or consider that they are the consequences of harmful influences. The fact that they are children of rich parents only makes their devilry more elaborate: this is the case of racing with stolen cars. How many angry teenagers with rich dads continue to do similar things?

Expertly directed by Nicholas Ray, the film had a high budget that allowed for quality production values. The cinematography is excellent, the sets and costumes couldn't be better (I especially liked Dean's parents' house and the abandoned mansion where part of the final scenes take place) and the cars used are beautiful. James Dean's hair and costume were decisive in youth fashion at that time, and the soundtrack accompanies everything with distinction and discretion.

However, what decisively marks this film is the excellent quality of the cast and their work, particularly the excellent performance achieved by James Dean. He is absolutely credible in the role he was given, despite being a little older than his character. The opening scene is worthy of an anthology, but also that fight with razors that takes place near the Griffith Observatory. Natalie Wood is also not far behind: she was then more or less the right age and had the necessary talent, as well as being very beautiful and charismatic. Sal Mineo plays a highly dramatic role, and his participation in this film is one of the highlights of his career. Finally, a note of praise for Jim Backus and Marietta Canty, who made good contributions to the film in slightly less valued roles.

A curious note that I just noticed: the three main actors in this film have in common the fact that they died before the age of forty-five, and each had a mysterious and violent death. Everyone knows that James Dean saw his life taken as a result of an unfortunate car accident, a few months after this film was made. However, in 1976, Sal Mineo followed, stabbed to death during a robbery at his home. A few years later, in 1981, it was the turn of Natalie Wood, who drowned in more than strange circumstances, during a yacht trip off the Californian coast.

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