• 1954
• US
• 115 min
• PG

• Directed by: Elia Kazan
• Written by: Paul Osborn,, John Steinbeck (uncredited)
• Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet

In a 1913 Californian farming valley, a wild adolescent boy rebels against his father and discovers a dark secret about the mother he thought was dead. Self-consciously meaningful family histrionics: a film always far too pleased with itself and rampantly over-acted with it.

• 8.1/10
• 87%