Rebel Without A Cause (1955)


James Dean              Jim
Natalie Wood            Judy
Sal Mineo               Plato
Jim Backus              Jim s Father
Ann Doran               Jim's Mother
Corey Allen             Buzz
William Hopper          Judy's Father
Rochelle Hudson         Judy s Mother
Dennis Hopper           Goon
Edward Platt            Ray
Steffi Sidney           Mil
Marietta Canty          Plato's Maid
Virginia Brissac        Jim s Grandma
Beverly Long            Helen
Ian Wolfe               Lecturer
Frank Mazzola           Crunch
Robert Foulk (II)       Gene
Jack Simmons            Cookie
Tommy Bernard (II)      Harry
Nick Adams              Moose
Jack Grinnage           Chick

Directed by:            Nicholas Ray
Produced by:            David Weisbart



The landmark teen film that solidified Dean's image with the public follows the story of rebellious 
middle-class teens, disenfranchised with their parents, and given to a life of thuggery and deadly 
dangerous drag racing to win over women.

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Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to 
move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he 
finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's 
real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and 
"chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.

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Jim Stark's family has just moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles. He meets Plato, and Judy, whom he 
likes. He somehow gets mixed up with some tough guys who talk him into participating in their "Chickie 
run", which involves driving cars towards the edge of a cliff. One of the other boys accidentally 
dies, and he was Judy's boyfriend. So, Jim, Judy and Plato are forced to hide in an old abandoned 
mansion to hid from the police and the friends of Judy's boyfriend, who believe that Jim ratted on 
them to the cops.