As police approach, the gang flees, leaving Judy behind, but Jim patiently persuades her to leave with him and Plato.
That night, during the chickie run, Buzz plunges to his death when the strap on his jacket sleeve becomes entangled with his door-latch lever, preventing him from exiting the car in time. At home, Jim ambiguously asks his father for advice about defending one's honor in a dangerous situation, but Frank advises him against confrontation of any kind. Jim beats Buzz in the knife fight, so to preserve his status as gang leader, Buzz suggests stealing some cars to have a " Chickie Run" at a seaside cliff. Jim is shunned by the rest of the student body but is befriended by Plato, who comes to idolize Jim as a father figure.Īfter a field trip to Griffith Observatory, Buzz provokes and challenges Jim to a knife fight. Seemingly unimpressed by Jim at first, she declines and is instead picked up by her "friends", a gang of delinquents led by Buzz Gunderson. On the way to his first day at Dawson High, Jim again meets Judy and offers her a ride. Plato's father abandoned his family when he was a toddler, and his mother is often away from home, leaving Plato in the care of his housekeeper.Judy is convinced that her father ignores her because she is no longer a little girl, so she dresses up in racy clothes to get attention, which only causes her father to call her a "dirty tramp".His frustrations are made manifest to officer Ray Fremick when Jim is released to their custody. Jim feels betrayed and anguished by his constantly bickering parents, Frank and Carol, but even more so by his father's timid attitude and failure to stand up to Carol the issues are further complicated by Frank's interfering mother.The three each separately reveal their innermost frustrations to the officers all three of them suffer from problems at home: At the station he crosses paths with John "Plato" Crawford, who was brought in for killing a litter of puppies, and Judy, who was brought in for curfew violation. In Los Angeles during the mid-1950s, teenager Jim Stark is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of a police station for public intoxication. In 1990, Rebel Without a Cause was added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant". This was the only film during Dean's lifetime in which he received top billing. Over the years the film has achieved landmark status for the performance of Dean, fresh from his Oscar nominated role in East of Eden, in his most celebrated role.
released the film on October 27, 1955, nearly a month after Dean's death in a car accident on September 30, 1955. The film, however, does not make any references to Lindner's book in any way. Lindner's 1944 book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath. The title was adopted from psychiatrist Robert M. The film was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore the differences and conflicts between generations. The film stars James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Natalie Wood. Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments. Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers.
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