Films with: Dean, James

East of Eden

In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to his estranged mother.

DVD 10000

Giant

Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.

DVD 2930

James Dean story

The first part provides a overview of one of the most powerful screen presences ever. Made only two years after Dean's death, the reaction of Dean's family, friends and fans is captured. The second part is a look at Dean's life as remembered by his confidant, William Bast. It gives an eye-witness account of Dean's growth as an actor and as a person.

DVD 1546

James Dean the TV years.

I'm a fool, by Sherwood Anderson: James Dean plays a young man who enters the world of horses and race tracks and takes a bad turn after meeting the ideal girl. The bells of Cockaigne, by George Lowther: the actor plays a young, strapping hard-working father needing money for his sick son. He gambles unluckily along with an older and luckier friend of his who wants nothing more than to return to his native Ireland.

DVD 1458

John Steinbeck's East of Eden

The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.

DVD 4414

Rebel without a cause

The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums.

DVD 482