In one of moviedom?s most influential role, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens ? and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim?s girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim?s tag-along pal Plato) were Academy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute. Rebel Without A Cause has been digitally mastered from newly restored elements, so this DVD offers the movie, picture and sound in their most optimal presentation since its original theatrical release.
Synopsis: 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.
Released:
Tue, 09/21/1999
Format Aspect Ratio:
2.35-Super Wide Screen
Resolution:
480x720 LowRez
Audio Format:
Dolby Digital
Actors:
James Dean - Jim Stark
Actors:
Natalie Wood - Judy
Actors:
Sal Mineo - Plato
Actors:
Jim Backus - Jim's father
Actors:
Ann Doran - Jim's mother
Actors:
Corey Allen - Buzz Gunderson
Actors:
William Hopper - Judy's father
Actors:
Rochelle Hudson - Judy's mother
Actors:
Dennis Hopper - Goon
Actors:
Edward Platt - Juvenile Officer Ray
Actors:
Steffi Sidney - Mil
Actors:
Marietta Canty - Plato's nurse
Actors:
Virginia Brissac - Jim's grandmother
Actors:
Beverly Long - Helen
Actors:
Ian Wolfe - Lecturer
Actors:
Frank Mazzola - Crunch
Actors:
Robert Foulk - Gene
Actors:
Jack Simmons - Cookie
Actors:
Tom Bernard - Harry
Actors:
Nick Adams - Moose
Actors:
Jack Grinnage - Chick
Actors:
Clifford Morris - Cliff
Actors:
Dorothy Abbott - nurse
Actors:
Jimmy Baird - Beau
Actors:
Paul Birch - police chief
Actors:
Paul Bryar - desk sergeant
Actors:
Louise Lane - policewoman
Actors:
Nelson Leigh - sergeant
Actors:
David McMahon - Crunch's father
Actors:
Peter Miller - hoodlum
Actors:
Bruce Noonan - monitor
Actors:
Nicholas Ray - man in last shot
Actors:
Gus Schilling - attendant
Actors:
Almira Sessions - old lady teacher
Actors:
Dick Wessel - guide
Actors:
Robert Williams - Ed, Moose's father
Actors:
House Peters Jr. - officer
