Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper and Nick Adams, and marking the film debut of Dennis Hopper in a minor role. Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format, it focuses on emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers, offering both social commentary and an alternative to earlier films that depicted delinquency in urban slum settings.
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Is Rebel Without a Cause preserved in the National Film Registry?
Yes. The Library of Congress lists it as inducted in 1990.
Yes. The Library of Congress complete National Film Registry listing records Rebel Without a Cause, the 1955 film, with an induction year of 1990.
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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film, directed by Nicholas Ray
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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper and Nick Adams, and marking the film debut of Dennis Hopper in a minor role.
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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film, directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age melodrama film, directed by Nicholas Ray.
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Rebel Without a Cause 1955 1990
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