Where is rebel without a cause set

Nicholas Ray. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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.

James Dean in his sensational role. Australian daybill. Did you know Edit. Trivia James Dean got angry when Nicholas Ray stopped the knife fight scene after noticing that Dean had been cut on the ear and was bleeding. Dean said, "Don't you ever cut a scene while I'm having a real moment.

Goofs When Jim takes the ammunition clip out of Plato's pistol, he fails to remove the round that would have already been housed in the chamber. Quotes Jim Stark : You're tearing me apart! Although the distributors initially wanted an 'A' certificate they were told that further cuts would have to be made, so the above print was released as an 'X'. All later UK releases were fully uncut and since the film has been PG rated.

User reviews Review. Top review. A Tale Of Three Misfits. The first two films came from the inspiration of two of the best American writers of the last century, Edna Ferber and John Steinbeck. The Fifties was certainly the era for those rebel type films, but Rebel Without A Cause is unique because it deals with these bored upper middle class kids.

It's as different a film as The Wild One with Marlon Brando and those working class biker types or the urban school kids of The Blackboard Jungle as you can get.

The problems of this crowd just don't seem as serious as those in the other two films. But because of the quality performances of James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo you do sort of feel for these kids. Dean is a misfit like he was in East of Eden, in fact his parents have just moved because of trouble he'd gotten into in his previous school.

Dean himself was raised by an aunt and uncle in Indiana so he could identify with both Cal Trask and Jim Stark. Come to think of it you could include Jett Rink in there as well. Natalie Wood also has father problems, William Hopper who just doesn't know how to deal with the fact that 'daddy's little girl' is blossoming into womanhood. Her mother, Rochelle Hudson, is one of those who looks like she's suffering a permanent headache and has abandoned the family ship to dear old dad. It's more an absence of mother and Hopper trying to do both roles which he just can't handle.

But Dean and Wood have parents. Judy's house, though it's barley glimpsed onscreen, is South Citrus Avenue. Jim appears from the gate at the rear of the third house along on the right of the alleyway. Although his address in the film is given as ' Angelo', this is actually the rear of West 62nd Street. The front of the house seen in the film is probably a studio set — it certainly looks nothing like the real home.

The school kids who give Jim such a hard time roll up on South Citrus Avenue and finally head off north to 'Dawson High'. Despite first appearances, the Observatory isn't strictly symmetrical. Road access leads to the west side of the Terrace only, which is where Jim Stark parks his car.

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