Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21519 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-06-06
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 106 minutes

DVD Description
In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean is Jim, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens -- and reverberates 40 years later. Before the feature are three Behind-the-Cameras segments. Presents TV series (including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's September 30, 1955 death) about Rebel Without a Cause. This classics edition also contains recently recovered screen tests and outtakes that show intriguing variations on what ended up in the final film.

Synopsis
James Dean stars as the ultimate juvenile delinquent. A lonely, misunderstood bad boy from a good family who will do anything to get his parents' attention, even if it ends in tragedy.

Customer Reviews

James Dean's Best Film
Brilliant cast of well-known Hollywood icons in hard-hitting treatment of story that focuses on the hopelessness exhibited by many middle-class teenagers who were too young to recall the pains of WWII, but saw daily reminders of the threat of "the bomb", as well as inequities around them.

James Dean stands out as the troubled kid whose parents keep "moving" to escape their community's effects of their son's strange behavior. Equally great are the performances of Natalie Wood as a "wanna-be-bad-girl" who is hurt by her parents' implications that she is a "tramp"; and the child-like Sal Mineo, who lives in a mansion with a maid, but feels the pains of neglect from never-present parents.

The trio first meet at a police station, where they all see a well-meaning officer who is genuinely interested in getting these troubled kids back on the right track rather than throwing the book at them. He does seem to reach James Dean, who seeks help after getting into more trouble.

The relationship between the James Dean character and that of Sal Mineo is somewhat elusive. At times a more than friendly association is suggested, then the appearance of Natalie Wood makes it look like an odd threesome. 1950s America was definitely unprepared for any "spelling out" of suggested terms, so for nearly 50 years now anyone's guess as to what was going on here is as good as the next.


Rebel Without A Cause is one of the great classics with a sociological impact that has seldom been reached by any film, and likely never surpassed

The greatest movie of all time
Rebel Without a Cause is a film that is brought alive - bursting with energy, emotion, tear-jerking drama and feeling by the true great hero James Dean. His performance, which he would never see the box office success off, due to his fatal car accident months later, was in my opinion his greatest of the three films he made. East of Eden is also a stunning motion picture, but Rebel has something else. Even now, there is something very special and magical about his presence that he is able to project through the lens. By the end of this epic, you feel completey absorbed, however many times you watch it.

It was Nicolas Ray, the stunning director who deserves more credit, who directed the picture beautifully and gave Jimmy the freedom to develop his character into a totally real person that contributed immensely. Jimmy is also supported by a good supporting cast; that of Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo who help to craft the intensety and drama.

Ultimately, I cannot say enough about Rebel Without a Cause. You have to see it to believe it. All I can say is that you will be left stunned and spellbound and it will likely have a long-lasting, possibly even life changing effect upon you.

Forget Marlon Brando as the greatest actor of all time if that was what you were told. James Dean IS.