This classic 50’s color flick is one of the first to really deal with life and not present it as the Leave it to Beaverish 50’s cheesecake factory.. James Dean debut’s as Jim Stark, a teenager without a care, who can’t stand his oppressive mother and benign, spoiling father, and who has a flare for living on the age, and is prone to yelling fits.
We follow him along with social introvert Plato and a beautiful girl as they are all in Juvenile hall, and then through school the next day. Jim runs afoul of Plato who latches on to him as he deals with the local punks and greasers. One of the toughs, Buzz, challenges him to a Chickee Race, and thendies as a result, and Jim must elude the police.
He then breaks into an abandoned mansion with Plato, and well, the story is a bit slow, but the dynamic element of it is the characters and the way they interact. The e;ements of rebellious nature that teens have, as well as the powerful display that they don’t always know why they do what they do, and the desire to be accepted, all comes through in glaring Technicolor. I give this movie a 2 for it’s resourcefulness and characters.
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