East of Eden

James Byron Dean starred in three Hollywood classics. This is the first... James Dean - Hollywood's first real teenager - is Cal, rebel son of 1917 farmer Adam Trask in Salinas Valley, California. Cal's twin, Aron, is their father's pride. Adam has no time for Cal. He's a bad 'un. Like his dead mother. Cal refuses to believe his mother is dead. Rejected at home, he hunts her down... and finds her running a cat-house in Monterey. He then forces Aron to face up to the family's shabby history. James Dean was nominated for an Oscar for his anguished performance of the unwanted, unloved Cal. Double Oscar-winner Elia Kazan, who also made stars of Brando and Beatty, directs the devastating film of part of John Steinbeck's monumental novel. Raymond Massey is Cal's righteous father. Jo Van Fleet won an Oscar as his mother. Julie Harris is his brother's girl. She, alone, understand's [sic] Cal's heartache but remains wary of his explosive nature. 'He scares me!' Also available in the James Dean Collection: "Giant" and "Rebel Without A Cause"