East Of Eden
Cal (James Dean) and Aron (Richard Davalos) are the sons of a modestly successful farmer and wartime draft board chairman. Cal is moody and embittered by his belief that his father favors Aron. Although both Cal and Aron had long been led to believe that their mother had died 'and gone to heaven,' the opening scene reveals Cal has apparently learned that his mother is still alive, owning and running a successful brothel in nearby Monterey.
March 9, 1917 in Del Rio, Texas, USA
9 August 1918, Brooklyn, New York, USA
19 October 1907, Sydney, Australia
June 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 October 1901, Dracut, Massachusetts, USA
April 3, 1913 in Illinois, USA
28 November 1901, Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
8 February 1931, Marion, Indiana, USA
24 August 1907, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
31 March 1906, Russia
26 April 1891, Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
29 December 1915, Oakland, California, USA
14 December 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 April 1904, Thessaly, Greece
January 20, 1898 in Aleppo, Syria
11 March 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1932, Hamtramck, Michigan, USA
October 13, 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
February 9, 1890 in San Jose, California, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
July 22, 1903 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy
20 December 1905, Brooklyn, New York, USA
8 May 1893, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 December 1878, Portlaw, Ireland
1 April 1929, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
March 20, 2008
Fine James Dean vehicle, one of few that put him into immortality.
January 26, 2006
It's a film of great performances, atmospheric photography, and a sure sense of period and place.
April 14, 2014
Catches fire in the clashes between Dean (as the bad brother) and Raymond Massey as his stiff-necked dad.
December 02, 2007
Kazan had the bad sense to leave out the best parts from the lengthy book.
May 11, 2011
a reaction to our plutocracy's values and a further case for Dean as the sainted figure of rebellion that would fuel the generational schism of the '60s.
November 01, 2007
John Steinbeck's painful biblical allegory -- Genesis replayed in Monterey, California, circa 1917 -- is more palatable on the screen, thanks to the down-to-earth performances of James Dean as Cal/Cain and Richard Davalos as Aron/Abel.
December 06, 2005
Not only one of Kazan's richest films and Dean's first significant role, it is also arguably the actor's best performance.
January 29, 2009
East of Eden is set in 1917 but [James] Dean feels completely modern and contemporary, a boy not quite comfortable in his body.
November 28, 2015
Rich historical detail and good visuals make interesting film.
February 17, 2006
James Dean's finest performance
May 20, 2003
In short, there is energy and intensity but little clarity and emotion in this film. It is like a great, green iceberg: mammoth and imposing but very cold.
