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FilmPG-131955
Rebel Without a Cause
Directed by Nicholas Ray
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's… From TMDB
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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 drama film, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo.
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60 of 189 · most liked firstInteresting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s so weird to watch Rebel Without a Cause, a movie that is mostly just about a kid who lives in the wrong era to be treated for depression, with the knowledge that it provoked a knockout-game-style panic about out of control youths
neutral · AI labelView post →We just watched -Goodfellas-. 35 years. It’s a movie made 35 years ago. JFC. If I were watching a 35-year-old film when -Goodfellas- was in theatres, it would be -Rebel Without a Cause-. I’m gonna have to pick out my casket and cemetery plot next week.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched The Breakfast Club with the family on kid’s request. Delightfully, achingly dated now, in a way that reminded me of how I felt watching Rebel Without A Cause for the first time. Which I now realise I did in 1995. When that film was as old as the Breakfast Club is now. Sheesh.
neutral · AI labelView post →Important film history here. They Hays code was so strict and *evil* that as @mattbaume.bsky.social points out in his great documentary on REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, the Hays Code approved of the film having a gay character because the he gets gunned down by police at the end, considered a just ending.
neutral · AI labelView post →Queer icon & fellow Jan Cap Sal Mineo was BOTD in 1939 & stabbed to death in the carport below his W. Hollywood apt in 1976 at 37. (Full disclosure: I have a Sal Mineo tattoo!) His breakout role in Ray's "Rebel Without a Cause"(1955) is often cited as the first "gay" teen on film
neutral · AI labelView post →The mansion exteriors were filmed at a mansion that was built by a millionaire in 1924. The pool was added for the film. The house also appears in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. #TCMParty #SunsetBoulevard ^JW (1/2) #SummerOfDarkness
neutral · AI labelView post →I especially love the way the writer keeps going on about James Dean in "Rebel Without A Cause," CLEARLY MISSING THE POINT OF THE ENTIRE FUCKING MOVIE. Also the fact that Dean was criticized (including by his own father) as being insufficiently macho at the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think part of the problem (if it is one) is the rise of disposable clothing. We had a lot fewer clothes in the past. Our old ones were for hanging about the house, and our newer ones were for being seen in. Even if you look at an old movie, like Rebel Without a Cause, the t-shirts are well made
neutral · AI labelView post →#Bales2025FilmCharacterChallenge Day 30 James in a movie James (Jim) Stark in Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
neutral · AI labelView post →Born 8 February 1931, and best remembered for his role in the film, Rebel Without a Cause, actor James Dean was a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment. He began acting as a young man and achieved immediate success. Sadly, he was killed in a car crash at the tender age of 24. #JamesDean
neutral · AI labelView post →70 years today since James Dean left the planet, much too young. Rebel Without a Cause changed my life, and I even knew that was the case when I was first watching it on repeat at thirteen years old. Here's some writing on the film for @letterboxd.social: letterboxd.com/cmnewland/fi...
positive · AI labelView post →PERSON OF THE DAY. 8 February 1931. James Dean was born in Marion, Indiana, USA. He was a cultural icon of 1950s teenage disillusionment as expressed in his most celebrated film Rebel Without a Cause. His 2 other most well known films were East of Eden and Giant.
neutral · AI labelView post →In his short life & untimely death, James Dean became a cultural icon. BOTD 2/8/1931. *Only 3 feature films made, released in 2 years. *All 3 bangers! *Two Oscar noms *1st posthumous Oscar nod for an actor 1955 East of Eden 1955 Rebel Without a Cause 1956 Giant #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →In his short life & untimely death, James Dean became a cultural icon. BOTD 2/8/1931. *Only 3 feature films made, released in 2 years *All 3 bangers! *Two Oscar noms *1st posthumous Oscar nod for actor 1955 East of Eden 1955 Rebel Without a Cause 1956 Giant #filmsky 📽🎥🎬🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I have been known to complain about the BFI screening notes trashing the wonderful films you’re there to see (poor Gene Tierney got a particular pasting) but @christinalefou.bsky.social’s notes for today’s Rebel Without a Cause screening were perfect. Read them on Letterboxd: boxd.it/7iHMux
positive · AI labelView post →#Bales2026MovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky #nightflight Day 2: Movie Featuring Troubled Teenagers (World Teen Mental Wellness Day) Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD 10/27/1955: Nicholas Ray's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE premiered. James Dean becomes a star, method acting gets a showcase, youth films have a new realistic voice, & Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo receive Oscar nods. "You're tearing me apart!!!" #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched it a decade ago with my then-teenager son. I think it’s aged better than, say, Rebel Without A Cause, but it’s definitely aged. www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...
neutral · AI labelView post →The first two poems were published years ago as: "Two Short Poems On The Death Of Insects". "Butterfly" is about the death of a butterfly. "Death Of A Cockroach", of course, is about the death of a cockroach. Its parenthetical title comes from a bit of dialog from the film "Rebel Without A Cause".
neutral · AI labelView post →New work! Released today from the BFI and @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social - here are my covers for the BFI Film Classics on REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, written by Glyn Davis and THE BEFORE TRILOGY, written by Lucas Hildebrand. This was an absolute dream job! #books #illustration #bookcover
neutral · AI labelView post →In Rebel Without a Cause, Plato (Sal Mineo) kept a photo of movie star Alan Ladd in his school locker.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on October 27! What's your fave? 1. 12th Fail 2. Babel 3. Rebel Without a Cause 4. The Bear 97 #Drama movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/oct-27?sort=ranking#drama #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray, born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle, Jr., on August 7, 1911, Galesville, WI (d. June 16, 1979). Faves: They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Rebel Without A Cause (1955), and later films with Wim Wenders. More: alt text
neutral · AI labelView post →Just booked seats to see REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE at the BFI in September. This film had such an impact on me as a baby gay. Wrote a huge paper on it as an undergrad. Really can't wait to revisit on the big screen!
positive · AI labelView post →"I have seen some things by Nicholas Ray but I didn’t find them interesting. I left the cinema after four reels of 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955). I get angry just thinking about that film." --- Orson Welles
neutral · AI labelView post →#FilmSky #MovieSky #EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 (14) 👉 car racer Rebel Without a Cause
neutral · AI labelView post →I showed "Casablanca" to my 5th grade students, as part of my 5 week Friday Afternoon Spring Film Festival for 20 years...."North by Northwest" "Rebel Without A Cause" "Singing in the Rain" "King Kong" were usually also featured.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week's last 4 watched. Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Captains Courageous (1937) A Boy and His Dog (1975) Rebel Without A Cause (1955) 🎬🍿📽️ #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Wrapping up “Film History to 1960” this week with postwar Hollywood. Feature: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Special lecture guests will include THIS IS CINERAMA and LET’S ALL GO TO THE LOBBY (an OG snipe, IYKYK). 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m closing out my "Film History to 1960” course in a few weeks with REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Overjoyed that a BFI Classics monograph just dropped. Written by scholar Glyn Davis. Also great cover👌. Love how BFI has been commissioning striking cover visuals during past few years.
neutral · AI labelView post →#JulyMovieChallenge Rebellious teen in a film Rebel Without A Cause (1955) The three rebellious teens meet up in juvie. Their crimes were public intoxication (James Dean), violating curfew (Natalie Wood) & killing a litter of puppies (Sal Mineo) Wait a minute! HE KILLED PUPPIES???🥺😵💫😵💫🥺
neutral · AI labelView post →Twenty minutes into “Rebel Without a Cause,” it appears to be a movie about a high school entirely for people in their mid-twenties.
neutral · AI labelView post →Very homo/bi-erotic film, “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955).
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight at the Revue Cinema - a 70th anniversary screening of the classic REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Here’s my poster for the event. There’s a handful of tickets left so be quick: revuecinema.ca/films/revue-... #film #illustration
neutral · AI labelView post →We had to shut off Rebel Without a Cause when it aired on PBS recently. I don’t understand the reverence this movie got. I think it was just popular because 1950s teenagers liked the pretty leads. (Don’t call me 🐓)
negative · AI labelView post →REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE is perennially my go-to answer for "movie you think is Cultural Vegetables but is actually a stunning and excellent film". It's a film whose rep is Important, but not a good movie, but folks let me tell you, this movie rips.
positive · AI labelView post →saw Lost Boys for the first time last night and I def thought it was a different movie Its great and fun don't get me wrong, but I guess my cultural osmosis of the movie painted it as the vampires being the protagonists in an ensemble Rebel Without a Cause kinda thing but nope its full 80s cheese!
neutral · AI labelView post →Weirdly, this is the fourth movie I've watched this week with him in it. (North by Northwest, Written on the Wind, and Rebel Without a Cause.) #NoirAlley #TCMParty #HouseOfNumbers
neutral · AI labelView post →The 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause " was loosely based on the 1944 non-fiction book "Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath."
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film. Yep going truly old school back to the 50s watching Rebel without a Cause. Staring none other than James Dean #filmsky #rebelwithoutacause #jamesdean
neutral · AI labelView post →10 non horror movies to get to know me Bottoms What We Do in the Shadows Bound My Own Private Idaho Saved! Love Lies Bleeding Shiva Baby Rebel Without A Cause Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion Scooby-Doo (2002) #film
neutral · AI labelView post →The tragic ending of Rebel Without a Cause was seen as a Juvenile Delinquent being punished, making the film a cautionary tale.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why didn't anyone tell me Rebel Without a Cause is a gay movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Griffith Observatory, named after industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, is the world’s most-visited public observatory. A top film location, it’s featured in hundreds of productions, including Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Terminator (1984). #BlackandWhitePhotography #Hollywood #LosAngeles
neutral · AI labelView post →Rebel Without a Cause dir. Nicholas Ray #botd More than six decades after its release, the film remains a groundbreaking exploration of the conflicts between generations, fuelled by James Dean’s performance and Ray’s bold direction. "Cinema is Nicholas Ray..." — Jean-Luc Godard
neutral · AI labelView post →For Pride Month, one film a day from the Official Sebbybear Canon of Films All Gays Should See. In no particular order Day 4: Rebel Without a Cause
neutral · AI labelView post →Just Added 70th Anniversary! ❤️ See a 35mm print of REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955) this Saturday at the Egyptian. The ultimate juvenile-delinquent film. Starring James Dean & Natalie Wood. Playing Jan. 11th at 3 pm. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...
neutral · AI labelView post →From my own viewing experience, these are my recommendations that I did not see yet in the thread: * [Throne of Blood](https://letterboxd.com/film/throne-of-blood/) (1957) Macbeth in feudal Japan. * [The Killing](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-killing/) (1956) Heist movie, early Kubrick * [The Day the Earth Stood Still](https://letterboxd.com/film/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/) (1951) Some early sci-fi. Superior to the Keanu Reeves remake. * [Rebel Without a…
neutral · AI labelView post →#shareanalbumcover #musicsky #MusicChallenge Madonna - True Blue The cover shot by Herb Ritz was inspired by Marilyn Monroe and the movie Rebel Without a Cause The cover also reflects the music on the album, which was inspired by 50s and 60s girl groups like The Supremes and The Ronettes.
neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge June 1 - movie scene that shows a glass, bottle or carton of milk Rebel Without a Cause (1955) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched STREETS OF FIRE (1984) for the first time in ages after @mpjedi2.bsky.social talked it up on the 22 Panels podcast. The way this movie just sort of throws REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and 1980s MTV into a blender is thoroughly disorienting, but somehow it all works! Good times.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering the great Sal Mineo, Oscar/Emmy-nominated classic film and television actor, on his 87th birthday, most famous for his signature role as Plato in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, as well as for pivotal roles in GIANT, EXODUS, and WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR?, and more. He was #BOTD on 1/10/1939
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm screening REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE in my Film History to 1960 survey this fall. Should one wish to rent it on YouTube they'll find new trailer hewing to contemporary conventions. I get it—"makes sense to cut to modern tastes"—but also this film historian says NO!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6A4...
negative · AI labelView post →Watched Rebel Without A Cause. Fifties kids are damn terrorists. Everyone in this movie is so pretty. All these adults need therapy
neutral · AI labelView post →This is basically my list but I'd swap Short Cuts for Rebel Without a Cause, mainly due to Griffith Observatory and my personal connection with the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →nadia has Dream Show 3 concert film on again and I am ENTRANCED by jisung's shirt in this segment that says "with Love to the Movie Rebel Without A Cause" babe.............babe what does that m e a n
neutral · AI labelView post →SUTTER CANE: Ah! My book is finished! It will plunge the world into MADNESS! ME: What if people don't read your book? CANE: There's A MOVIE! ME: ME: Okay, what if they don't see the movie? C: C: Well, they HAVE to see the movie ME: No they don't C: Yuh-HUH M: Dude I never saw REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
neutral · AI labelView post →Rebel Without a Cause (1955) debuted less than a month after its star James Dean’s passing, making the whole film a complicated memorial to that tragically lost teen & screen icon. & given that he died in a car crash, that was especially the case with the film’s central, iconic “chicken run” scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is my favorite L.A. movie. #NowWatching Nicholas Ray’s REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE
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