Rebel without a cause
... In contrast to their stark b&w photography is Rebel Without A Cause (1955), a glossy Technicolor CinemaScope production. ... Marlon Brando portrayed a similarly alienated youth rebel in Laslo Benedeks The Wild One (1954), but despite his exceptional performance, RWAC is the better film. ... Judys relationship with her father is the cause of her problems. ... It is interesting that Jim Stark is not much of a rebel at all - with or without a cause. ... Buzz is the most appropriate candidate for the rebel without a cause label. ... " For the filmmakers to suggest that these kids have no cause to rebel is narrow-minded - are we expected to believe that middle-class America was utopia in the fifties?