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Title

  • Rebel without a cause

Summary

  • A melodrama about maladjusted adolescents who live in a comfortable middle-class neighborhood near Los Angeles. After moving into the neighborhood, an emotionally-confused teen-ager becomes involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.

Names

  • Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979, direction, writing.
  • Weisbart, David, production.
  • Stern, Stewart, writing.
  • Shulman, Irving, writing.
  • Rosenman, Leonard, music.
  • Dean, James, 1931-1955, cast.
  • Wood, Natalie, cast.
  • Mineo, Sal, 1939-1976, cast.
  • Backus, Jim, cast.
  • Doran, Ann, cast.
  • Allen, Corey, 1934-2010, cast.
  • Hudson, Rochelle, 1916-1972, cast.
  • Adams, Nick, 1931-1968, cast.
  • Hopper, Dennis, 1936-2010, cast.
  • Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
  • Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955.

Headings

  • -  Juvenile delinquency--California--Drama
  • -  Gangs--California--Drama
  • -  Juvenile delinquency films

Genre

  • High school films and programs
  • Epics
  • Features
  • Adaptations
  • Melodrama

Notes

  • -  LP7249 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 29Oct55; LP7249.
  • -  Adaptation, Irving Shulman ; music, Leonard Rosenman ; photography, Ernest Haller ; film editor, William Ziegler.
  • -  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), Virginia Brissac (Jim's grandma), Nick Adams (Moose), Jack Simmons (Cookie), Dennis Hopper (Goon).
  • -  Cinemascope, Warner Color.
  • -  Summary taken from M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC, LCCN Fi56-998.
  • -  Based on an adaptation by Irving Shulman of a story line by Nicholas Ray inspired from the story The blind run by Dr. Robert M. Lindner.
  • -  Source(s) used: 1) M/B/RS preliminary shelflist card, PREMARC, LCCN Fi56-998 2) Ross & Nash's The motion picture guide, 1927-1983, p. 2555.
  • -  Received: 1956; ref print; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
  • -  Item not viewed.

Medium

  • ref print. 16 reels of 16 (ca. 9990 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FGA 9193-9208 (ref print)
  • DVA 0688 (viewing copy)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 96514970

Online Format

  • web page
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Stern, Stewart, Writing, Irving Shulman, Leonard Rosenman, James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, et al. Rebel Without a Cause. directeds by Ray, Nicholas, Ection, Writing, produceds by Weisbart, Daviduction United States: Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96514970/.

APA citation style:

Stern, S., Shulman, I., Rosenman, L., Dean, J., Wood, N., Mineo, S. [...] Copyright Collection. (1955) Rebel Without a Cause. Ray, N., dir, Weisbart, D., prod United States: Warner Bros. Pictures. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/96514970/.

MLA citation style:

Stern, Stewart, Writing, et al. Rebel Without a Cause. dir by Ray, Nicholas, Ection, Writing, prod by Weisbart, Daviduction United States: Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/96514970/>.