Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Nicholas Ray

List Price: ~~$26.98~~
Our Price: $12.00
You Save: $14.98 (56%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: DVD
See more DVD details

Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada

DVD details

Actor: Ann Doran, James Dean, Jim Backus, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Director: Nicholas Ray
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

DVD Reviews of Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)

DVD Review: A few thoughts...
Summary: 5 Stars

Nicholas Ray's 'Rebel without a cause' is one of those layered parables that lends itself very easily to analysis - and could be deconstructed several different ways.. What appeals to me beyond the substance of this movie is the very simple ways in which it grasps the viewer.. and usually when people talk about the movie they focus on the emotion of Dean's performance.
It strikes me that the subtle way Ray takes the triangular structure of parenthood is so very neatly reflected and amplified in the new triangular relationship that is formed later in the film (Dean, wood, and mineo).. This new triangle seems almost a dream but it is riddled with the same problems of the first and ends with the unfortunate but fitting climax.. Ray takes an eternally interesting struggle and perpetuates it with no clear resolution - as would normally be seen in a film from the 1950's.
Even when taking into consideration all of the other elements that are subtley thrown in - Freud, homosexuality, 'man alone' - it is the simplicity of the structure of the film and its uniformity that impress me the most..
Very few movies are able to express so much in such a brilliantly wrapped package.

DVD Review: 5 Thumbs Up!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie was a school assignment that my niece chose, and I could not be happier with the end result! Very smooth transaction...I wrote to the seller explaining it was intended as a gift for her school assignment and the seller responded to my concerns immediately! The movie was delivered very quickly, in excellent condition, and it has been an enjoyable experience watching it with my niece! Thank you so very much!

DVD Review: Still cool 50 years later
Summary: 5 Stars

Teenaged Jim Stark (James Dean) has just moved to a new town and wants to fit in with the local greasers. However, things go horribly wrong when a game of Chicken between Stark and one of the greasers ends in the greaser's death.

Although not the first cinematic depiction of the 1950's youth culture ("The Wild One" was made two years earlier), "Rebel Without a Cause" is one of the best of these such films. Unlike "The Wild One", which barely even had a plot, "Rebel Without a Cause" has a strong storyline which would probably still work if it were remade today, and Jim Stark is a far more realistic character than Brando's Johnny Strabler. It is essentially a coming of age film, chronicling Jim Stark's transition from irresponsible teenager, to adulthood, as he is effectively forced to become a "parent" to a troubled young friend of his, who sees him as a hero.

As it was made in the 50's, many of the characters feel as though they were taken straight out of "Grease" (for example, the greasers, who appear to comb their hair every two seconds), which makes the film somewhat laughable to begin with, but as the film progresses and takes a serious turn, you forget this pretty quickly. Jim Stark, however, with his iconic red jacket and a cigarette hanging from his mouth, still seems as cool as he must have seemed in 1955, and after seeing this film, I finally understand why James Dean's legend has lived on for more than 50 years after his death.

DVD Review: the best movie to see!
Summary: 5 Stars

this movie is the best movie out there about teenagers. James Dean and Nataile Wood- as always- are great in this movie. this is one of my favortie movies ever, its worth watching!

DVD Review: Defines James and him alone
Summary: 5 Stars

James's acting was supperb in this film. I think that James really didn't have to act because most of this character WAS him. The plot of this story also defines what life was like in the 1950's.

Description of Rebel Without a Cause (Two-Disc Special Edition)

In one of the most influential performances in movie history, James Dean plays the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and still reverberate 50 years later. Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo were Academy Award nominees* for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark chosen as one of the all-time Top 100 American Film by the American Film Institute.

When people think of James Dean, they probably think first of the troubled teen from Rebel Without a Cause: nervous, volatile, soulful, a kid lost in a world that does not understand him. Made between his only other starring roles, in East of Eden and Giant, Rebel sums up the jangly, alienated image of Dean, but also happens to be one of the key films of the 1950s. Director Nicholas Ray takes a strikingly sympathetic look at the teenagers standing outside the white-picket-fence '50s dream of America: juvenile delinquent (that's what they called them then) Jim Stark (Dean), fast girl Judy (Natalie Wood), lost boy Plato (Sal Mineo), slick hot-rodder Buzz (Corey Allen). At the time, it was unusual for a movie to endorse the point of view of teenagers, but Ray and screenwriter Stewart Stern captured the youthful angst that was erupting at the same time in rock & roll. Dean is heartbreaking, following the method acting style of Marlon Brando but staking out a nakedly emotional honesty of his own. Going too fast, in every way, he was killed in a car crash on September 30, 1955, a month before Rebel opened. He was no longer an actor, but an icon, and Rebel is a lasting monument. --Robert Horton

General DVDs

DVD Video

Bestsellers in General DVDs

Frost/ Nixon
Universal; Release date: 2009-04-21; DVD
Best price: $11.39
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Lost in Austen
Image Entertainment; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $14.98
Price in other shops: ~~$27.98~~

Australia
Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-03; DVD
Best price: $12.99
Price in other shops: ~~$29.99~~

Doubt
Release date: 2009-04-07; DVD
Best price: $14.43
Price in other shops: ~~$29.99~~

True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series)
Release date: 2009-05-19; DVD
Best price: $38.99
Price in other shops: ~~$59.99~~

Fireproof
Sony; Release date: 2009-01-27; DVD
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops: ~~$28.96~~

The Reader
Genius; Release date: 2009-04-14; DVD
Best price: $12.30
Price in other shops: ~~$29.95~~

The Wrestler
Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-04-21; DVD
Best price: $11.49
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Marley and Me (Single-Disc Edition)
Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $10.55
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Slumdog Millionaire
Twentieth Century Fox; Release date: 2009-03-31; DVD
Best price: $10.40
Price in other shops: ~~$29.98~~

Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs

Sunset Boulevard - The Centennial Collection
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2008-11-11; DVD
Best price: $10.30
Price in other shops: ~~$16.99~~

Easy Rider
SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2002-06-04; DVD
Best price: $5.90
Price in other shops: ~~$14.94~~

Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2001-09-25; DVD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~

Some Like It Hot
MONROE,MARILYN; Release date: 2001-05-22; DVD
Best price: $5.89
Price in other shops: ~~$14.98~~

The Wild One
SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 1998-11-10; DVD
Best price: $6.11
Price in other shops: ~~$14.94~~

On the Waterfront (Special Edition)
SONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2001-10-23; DVD
Best price: $11.99
Price in other shops: ~~$19.94~~

Casablanca
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2000-02-15; DVD
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops: ~~$19.98~~

A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2006-05-02; DVD
Best price: $9.92
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~

Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
WARNER HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2005-05-31; DVD
Best price: $11.38
Price in other shops: ~~$26.98~~