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Juvenile Delinquency in “Rebel Without a Cause” Movie Review
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Rebel Without a Cause
Produced and distributed by Warner Bros.; release date: October 27, 1955 (USA); running time: 111 minutes; producer: David Weisbert; director: Nicholas Ray; script: Stewart Stern; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor: William H. Ziegler; art director: Malcolm C. Bert; set decoration: William Wallace; costumes: Moss Mabry; sound: Stanley Jones; music: Leonard Rosenman.
Cast: James Dean (Jim Stark), Natalie Wood (Judy), Sal Mineo (John ‘Plato’ Crawford), Jim Backus (Frank Stark), Ann Doran (Mrs. Carol Stark), Corey Allen (Buzz Gunderson), William Hopper (Judy’s Father), Rochelle Hudson (Judy’s Mother), Dennis Hopper (Goon), Edward Platt (Ray Fremick), Steffi Sidney (Mil), Marietta Canty (Crawford Family Maid), Virginia Brissac (Mrs. Stark, Jim’s Grandmother), Beverly Long (Helen), Ian Wolfe (Dr. Minton), Frank Mazzola (Crunch), Robert Foulk (Gene), Jack Simmons (Cookie), Tom Bernard (Harry), Nick Adams (Chick), Jack Grinnage (Moose), Clifford Morris (Cliff).
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1) The “social problem film” of studio-era Hollywood is one that specifies a familiar social problem, identifies a set of factors out of which the problem is supposed to arise, and suggests a means by which the problem might be solved or ameliorated. If we take Rebel Without A Cause as a social problem film about juvenile delinquency, to what extent does it conform to this schema?
2) The title of the film points to a central ambiguity in what exactly is motivating James Dean’s Jim Stark. Is he so troubled because he wants to escape adult society, or because he wants to join it?
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